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The Great Ziggurat of Ur - The 6,000-year rise of Mesopotamia

The Great Ziggurat of Ur rose above one of Mesopotamia’s most powerful cities, a major center of trade, religion, and royal authority founded around 5,800 years ago in southern Iraq. Built for the ...
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Meet Enheduanna: Sumerian Princess, Priestess, and the World’s First Known Author

In the figure of Enheduanna, we see a powerful figure of great creativity, whose passionate praise of the goddess of love ...
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The last Sumerian kingdom, how Lugalzagesi conquered Sumer, then lost everything to Sargon's empire

In the third millennium BC, one Sumerian ruler rose from Umma and briefly united the ancient city-states of southern Mesopotamia, even claiming to reach the Mediterranean. This chapter follows ...
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University of Chicago’s Miguel Civil, top expert on ancient Sumerian, dead at 92

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Study translates fragmentary ancient Sumerian myth around 4,400 years old

A recent study by Dr. Jana Matuszak, published in the academic journal Iraq, examines the mythical narrative contained in a tablet (Ni 12501) dating to the Early Dynastic IIIb period (ca. 2540–2350 ...