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.

Archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery of thousands of cuneiform tablets at the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu ... a nearby temple dedicated to the warrior god Ningirsu.

It shows the king of Ur as a warrior on one side and him enjoying a banquet on the other. Woolley’s discoveries are important because they tell us about ancient Sumerian life. Eventually ...