Silver shekels are approximately 1/3 the weight of an ounce. For each month of work, one shekel was paid. As soon as people who broke the law were fined in shekels, rulers began charging them fines.

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. Would you like to visit me at the dawn of ...

He maintains that Menes was at one and the same time the Sumerian emperor in Mesopotamia and the first dynastic king of Egypt, a crown-colony of his world-empire.

Sumerian art included intricate pottery ... Indus Valley: While also polytheistic, the religious practices of the Indus people remain less understood due to the undeciphered script.

Millennia ago, in the Fertile Crescent, the land nestled between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in what is now present-day Iran, the ancient Mesopotamian civilization of Sumer arose. Sumerians ...