Lost to the ether for 60 years, The Sumerian Game, one of the genre's earliest cave paintings, is back, rebuilt, and available for free on Steam.

SAN FRANCISCO — A 200-year-long drought 4,200 years ago may have killed off the ancient Sumerian language, one geologist says.

Over a thousand years, the Sumerian alternating-base method was simplified into the sexagesimal system, with the same symbol standing for 1 or 60 or 3,600, depending on its place in the number, Dr ...