Sumerian art included intricate pottery, sculptures, and jewellery. Architecturally, they are known for building ziggurats—massive stepped structures that served religious purposes. The Sumerian ...

Pyramids of various sorts also appear in the ancient African kingdom of Kush, along the Nile between the third and fourth cataracts; as ziggurats in ancient Mesopotamia and Sumeria (the likely ...

The Indus Valley civilization, also called the Harappan civilization, is seen by experts as on a par with the better-known ones of Egypt, Mesopotamia and China. One of the earliest, it flourished ...