This ancient society helped build the modern world. Writing, laws, cities, ... a Sumerian god of water, creation, and fertility who is sometimes depicted as part goat.

Their temples—dedicated to such gods as to Innin, the goddess of fertility, or to Dumuzi, a kind of Sumerian Adonis—were huge edifices of mud brick made splendid by intricate mosaics of ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a 4,500-year-old Sumerian temple at the heart of the ancient city of Girsu, in southeastern Iraq. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Learn more about life in Ancient Sumer in this BBC Bitesize year 5/6 history guide. ... They were tall so that people could be closer to the gods in the sky. Image caption, ...