Stories by Samuel Noah Kramer

This gifted people lived at the head of the Persian Gulf roughly between 5,000 and 3,500 years ago. Their brilliant technological and social inventions laid the foundation of modern civilization

On a clay tablet in Istanbul a University of Pennsylvania archaeologist has found the enlightened code of Ur-Nammu, who reigned over Sumer and Ur more than 4,000 years ago

The recent discovery of an inscribed clay tablet at the site of an ancient city near modern Baghdad has made possible the translation of a 3,500-year-old agricultural handbook