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

[ Image Gallery: Ancient Middle-Eastern Texts ] But after 200 to 300 years of upheaval, the Sumerian culture disappeared around 4,000 years ago, and the Sumerian language went extinct soon after that.

Paul Verhoeven's racy 1992 thriller starring Sharon Stone is the inspiration for a comic series from Sumerian.

Sumerian Records will be celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2016 and with a U.S. tour featuring Born of Osiris, Veil of Maya, After the Burial and more.

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This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq.

Sumerian has acquired the North American rights to brutal coming-of-age story 'Mascot,' which had its world premiere in January at Slamdance.

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Some of Hobby Lobby’s Smuggled Artifacts May Come From Lost Sumerian City Among the 3,800 artifacts being repatriated to Iraq today include pieces believed to be from Irisagrig, a site ...

An extended drought in the Middle East about 4,200 years ago may have caused the demise of the ancient Sumerian culture and language.