Gender-ambiguous people in ancient Mesopotamia were powerful and important members of society more than four millennia ago.

Looking back at the past year, 2025 was marked by discovery and transformation at the University of Chicago. Faculty, students, staff, and alumni celebrated awards and recognition; launched new ...

We at MetalSucks and firebrand Sumerian Records founder Ash Avildsen have not gotten along in the past. We’ve battled over political issues, he’s called us communists (personally, I’m a socialist so ...

Black Myth Wukong has been a conversation-starter since its earliest gameplay footage was shown, and the mythology-inspired action-RPG has kept a pretty high price since it debuted. Now, thanks to ...

Cuneiform writing from Sumer. Credit: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons The world’s first urban civilization may have owed its rise not only to rivers but also ...

More than five thousand years ago, in the fertile lowlands of southern Mesopotamia, the world’s first cities began to rise from the mud. Historians have long credited this explosion of ...

Cosmos Theatre Arts presents Inanna’s Descent into the Underworld, running Wednesday through Saturday, Oct. 30 through Nov. 1, at the Cosmos Theatre, 222 N. Marina St., Prescott. The production brings ...

Rob Williams, the veteran film executive who spent a decade at the now defunct Participant Media, has been named president of content strategy at Sumerian Pictures. Founder and CEO Ash Avildsen ...

Ancient Sumerian mythology tells that Eridu, considered one of the most southern of the settlements close to the Persian Gulf, was inhabited before the flood when, according to the Sumerian King list: ...

A fresh translation of a fragmentary Sumerian tablet has revealed one of the world's oldest surviving narratives featuring a cunning fox as an unlikely hero. The ancient clay tablet, designated Ni ...