At its peak, the Old Babylonian Empire rose to be one of the biggest civilizations the world had seen–but what was daily life like? Along with the pioneering legal code of Hammurabi, a wealth of ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

Foreword -- An introduction : cities lost and found / by John Carswell -- The Sumerians of Mesopotamia ; The royal cities of Solomon / by Seymour L. Fishbein -- Pompeii : city sealed in time / by ...