A 5,000-year-old Sumerian riddle
A riddle from clay tablets describes a house you enter with eyes closed and leave with eyes open, and its answer shows how the Sumerians valued school.
From Shatra… where Sumer begins
Amer Abdul-Razzaq
Iraqi archaeologist · Adviser to the Minister of Tourism and Antiquities
Our antiquities are not stones from the past, but roots we drink from.
From the land of Ur, Eridu and Girsu came the first cities, the first writing and the first laws. Here Mr. Amer Abdul-Razzaq takes you on a journey through time, into a civilisation that still lives in the soil of southern Iraq.
Sumer fact of the day
The Ziggurat of Ur was built by King Ur-Nammu in the 21st century BCE and dedicated to the moon god Nanna.
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Writings
From his writings and talks
The sequence of civilisations in Mesopotamia
A simple introduction to the civilisations of Mesopotamia and how one followed another.
The world's first academy of mathematics
A teaser question: where did the world's first mathematics academy arise? The answer takes us to ancient Iraq.
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Atlas of Sumer
Map of the Roots of Sumer
Twelve sites from Eridu to the marshes, at their real coordinates.
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