There was a silver and gold coinage used to pay armies in Asia Minor by the elites of Lydia and Ionia. How did the Sumerians civilization make money? Metals such as gold, silver, and other metals were ...

New research traces Mesopotamian origins of writing back to trade symbols, shedding light on the evolution of written ...

Researchers investigating how the first writing arose identified the motifs on preliterate "cylinder seals" used in the trade of agricultural products and textiles.

Narrator: Hello, future people of the UK. Would you like to visit me at the dawn of civilisation in ancient Sumer? Well, to do that, you’ve got to travel back in time. Back before the Vikings ...

Flooding meant that crops weren't growing as well. Cities began to struggle. In the end, Sumer was invaded by the Elamites who came from modern-day Iran. Narrator: Hello, future people of the UK.

Systems of writing began being developed. Civilization first appeared in the Middle East around Mesopotamia and the Nile in a region known as the Fertile Crescent. The early civilizations that ...