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5 days ago · This tablet (29.16.422 in the Nippur collection of the University Museum) is one of the unpublished pieces belonging to the Sumerian epic poem 1 whose hero Enmerkar ruled in the city of Erech sometime during the fourth millennium B. C. The passage enclosed by the black line describes the blissful and unrivalled state of man in an era of ...
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1 day ago · An extract from the Cyrus Cylinder (lines 15–21), giving the genealogy of Cyrus the Great and an account of his capture of Babylon in 539 BC. The cuneiform sign "EN", for "Lord" or "Master": the evolution from the pictograph of a throne circa 3000 BC, followed by simplification and rotation down to circa 600 BC.
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4 days ago · Sumerian (Sumerian: 𒅴𒂠, romanized: Emeg̃ir, lit. '' native language '') is the language of ancient Sumer. It is one of the oldest attested languages, dating back to at least 2900 BC. It is accepted to be a local language isolate and to have been spoken in ancient Mesopotamia, in the area that is modern-day Iraq .
4 days ago · Summary: The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic that is claimed to be the oldest story written on earth, it is a story based on Ancient Sumeria which is now referred to as Mesopotamia. The epic begins by describing the king of Uruk, Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh was two-thirds god and one-third human and was designed by Aruru.
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3 days ago · “It follows the story of the King of Uruk, Gilgamesh and Enkidu, a wild man created by the Gods with the intention of preventing Gilgamesh from oppressing his people and forcibly taking women. There’s some…” Tom trailed off, not sure if he wanted to explain the plot that involved ‘taming’ Enkidu through means of temple prostitution.
