leaving researchers to piece together clues from ancient artifacts and early technological advancements. Traditional theories place the wheel’s development in Mesopotamia around 4000 BCE ...

The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...

The Sumerian city is a splendid sight ... so obviously useful and so ripe for invention. Potter’s wheels were an ancient technology by this time. The city had streets that were flat and smooth ...

Ancient Sumer was in the southern part of a place called ... Teachers could be very strict and only boys were allowed to attend. The wheel, writing, and the 60 minute clock are all thought to ...