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Bolstered by renowned texts and international trips, the Western Humanities sequence attracts many underclass students, while ...

But only in this century have scholars come to know the Sumerians with any thoroughness, chipping away at the sites of such ancient city-states as Ur, Lagash and Mari. Last week a U.S. expedition ...

Clustered around the city's port on the banks of the St. Lawrence River are the quaint stone buildings and narrow, winding streets of Old Québec. This historic neighborhood (and UNESCO World ...

Geoff Keighey's non-E3 summer gaming event, the Summer Game Fest, is back for 2025. It will be held in Downtown Los Angeles from June 7th through the 9th. Summer Game Fest also coincides with the ...

such as Uruk and Ur, which became complex city-states with advanced infrastructure, including temples (ziggurats), walls, and marketplaces. The Sumerians created a base-60 number system ...

According to the Book of Genesis, Abraham, originally named Abram, was called by G-d to leave his birthplace, a Sumerian city known as Ur of the Chaldees (“Ur Kasdim” in the original Hebrew ...

the first known empire of Mesopotamia. The cities of Ur, said to be the birthplace of the prophet Abraham, and Uruk, the largest city in the world in 3000 BCE, were located along the Euphrates River ...

He maintains that Menes was at one and the same time the Sumerian emperor in Mesopotamia and the first dynastic king of Egypt, a crown-colony of his world-empire.

Andrew Eames visits the ancient city of Ur, where Agatha met her future husband the archaeologist Max Mallowan. From 2004. Show more Andrew Eames visits the ancient city of Ur retracing the route ...

The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, or NCECA, is hosting its 53rd annual conference, “Claytopia,” March ...