Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Narrator: Hello, future people of the UK. Would you like to visit me at the dawn of civilisation in ancient Sumer?

Many are the exercises of students learning to be scribes. Their plight was not to be envied. They were mastering mathematics based on texts in Sumerian, a language that even at the time was long ...

Whether you were hoping to drop a few pounds or build that summer six-pack, the ancient world was loaded with helpful pointers about getting in shape. 1. Drunk athletes still have to exercise ...

Since I consider dinosaurs and the evolution of man to fall under science, we start our history studies around 5000 B.C. with the ancient Sumerians and Mesopotamia. We've learned quite a bit so ...