A CURIOUS HYBRID of spoon and fork, the spork might seem like a modern-day convenience—one of those quirky plastic utensils dished out at fast-food joints. But its roots stretch back thousands of ...

The statement further noted that over time, cultural items at the site shifted from local traditions to resembling those of ancient Uruk in southern Iraq. Uruk, one of the world’s first cities ...

We invented all this well before the Ancient Egyptians… It all started ... as well as the careful urban planning that went into the city of Uruk. He explains their writing system, using a ...

Ancient Sumer was in the southern part of a ... The civilisation was famous for its cities. Ur, Uruk, Eridu, and Larsa were some of the largest. Each city-state had its own ruler.