Sumerian "Farmer's Almanac" The recent discovery of an inscribed clay tablet at the site of an ancient city near modern Baghdad has made possible the translation of a 3,500-year-old agricultural ...

The temple was dedicated to Ningirsu, the Sumerian god of agriculture, thunder, and storms. Temple wall, Girsu, Iraq(© Trustees of the British Museum) Soon after the artifacts arrived at the ...

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.