https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24933230-900-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-mysterious-culture-that-invented-civilisation/
This enigmatic culture, known as the Cucuteni-Trypillia, predates the earliest known cities in Mesopotamia, a civilisation that spanned part of the Middle East, and in China. It persisted for 800

https://www.britannica.com/place/Mesopotamia-historical-region-Asia/The-emergence-of-Mesopotamian-civilization
History of Mesopotamia - Ancient Cities, Sumerians, Tigris-Euphrates: The Late Neolithic Period and the Chalcolithic Period. Between about 10,000 bce and the genesis of large permanent settlements, the following stages of development are distinguishable, some of which run parallel: (1) the change to sedentary life, or the transition from continual or seasonal change of abode, characteristic of

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-there-wasnt-an-advanced-civilization-12-000-years-ago/
Evolution. Graham Hancock is an audacious autodidact who believes that long before ancient Mesopotamia, Babylonia and Egypt there existed an even more glorious civilization. One so thoroughly

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Eridu Genesis, also called the Sumerian Creation Myth, Sumerian Flood Story and the Sumerian Deluge Myth, offers a description of the story surrounding how humanity was created by the gods, how the office of kingship entered human civilization, the circumstances leading to the origins of the first cities, and the global flood.. Other Sumerian creation myths include the Barton Cylinder, the

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With great symbols representing majesty and power, mythical gods and pharaohs, and great technological inventions that changed the world, we are used to seei

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer
Sumer (/ ˈ s uː m ər /) is the earliest known civilization, located in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia (now south-central Iraq), emerging during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages between the sixth and fifth millennium BC. Like nearby Elam, it is one of the cradles of civilization, along with Egypt, the Indus Valley, the Erligang culture of the Yellow River valley, Caral

https://www.britannica.com/place/Mesopotamia-historical-region-Asia/Sumerian-civilization
Sumerian civilization. in history of Mesopotamia in Mesopotamia to the end of the Old Babylonian period. Written by. Richard N. Frye. Aga Khan Professor Emeritus of Iranian, Harvard University. Director, Asia Institute, Pahlavi University, Shīrāz, Iran, 1969-74. Author of The History of Ancient Iran and others.

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A math exercise written in cuneiform on a baked-clay tablet from circa late third millennium B.C. Prisma/Album. Resembling little wedges and lines, Sumerian writing was created by pressing a reed

https://www.history.com/topics/ancient-middle-east/sumer
Sumer was an ancient civilization founded in the Mesopotamia region of the Fertile Crescent, its people known for innovations in language, governance and more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_religion
Sumerian religion was the religion practiced by the people of Sumer, the first literate civilization found in recorded history and based in ancient Mesopotamia, and what is modern day Iraq.The Sumerians widely regarded their divinities as responsible for all matters pertaining to the natural and social orders of their society.: 3-4

https://www.worldhistory.org/Sumerians/
The Sumerians were the people of southern Mesopotamia whose civilization flourished between c. 4100-1750 BCE. Their name comes from the region which is frequently - and incorrectly - referred to as a "country". Sumer was never a cohesive political entity, however, but a region of city-states each with its own king.. Sumer was the southern counterpart to the northern region of Akkad

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DeAgostini/Getty Images. A Mesopotamian woman weaving. While other cultures in the Middle East gathered wool and used it to weave fabric for clothing, the Sumerians were the first to do it on an

https://www.britannica.com/place/Mesopotamia-historical-region-Asia/Sumer-and-Akkad-from-2350-to-2000-bce
History of Mesopotamia - Sumer, Akkad, 2350-2000 BCE: There are several reasons for taking the year 2350 as a turning point in the history of Mesopotamia. For the first time, an empire arose on Mesopotamian soil. The driving force of that empire was the Akkadians, so called after the city of Akkad, which Sargon chose for his capital (it has not yet been identified but was presumably located on

https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/reflections-on-the-mesopotamian-flood/
The Sumerian version of this story was unknown until 1914 when my teacher and colleague, the distinguished Sumerologist, Arno Poebel, published a copy and translation of a tablet excavated some time between 1889 and 1900 at Nippur, Sumer's holy city. Only the lower third of the tablet is preserved—scholars have searched in vain for possible

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4. The Sumerians were famously fond of beer. A clay seal depicting beer drinking in a banquet scene dating from 2600-2350 B.C. Along with inventing writing, the plow, law codes, and literature

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zdq72v4
The Sumerian King List is a group of clay prisms with names of Sumerian cities and rulers on them. The prisms are an important record of the Sumerian language. They are believed to be from around

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo95658083.html
Paul Collins. The Sumerians are widely believed to have created the world's earliest civilization on the fertile floodplains of southern Iraq from about 3500 to 2000 BCE. They have been credited with the invention of nothing less than cities, writing, and the wheel, and therefore hold an ancient mirror to our own urban, literate world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY_UvAY-w8Y
I'mWelcome to "Ancient History"! In this episode, we explore the fascinating world of the Sumerians, one of the earliest and most influential civilizations i

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.141.3581.623
Sumerian Civilization: The Sumerians.Their history, culture, and character. Samuel Noah Kramer. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1963. xiv + 355 pp. Illus. $ 7.95.

https://humanoriginproject.com/first-civilization-earth-sumerians-ancient-mesopotamia/
It was the southernmost region of ancient Mesopotamia, which was once the largest and most populated region on earth. The earliest records of Sumeria provide a murky picture of their origin. In a period between 6500BC and 3800BC, the first inhabitants of what would eventually become Sumer are known as the Ubaid people.

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Excavated ruins of Mohenjo-daro, Sindh province, Pakistan, showing the Great Bath in the foreground. Mohenjo-daro, on the right bank of the Indus River, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the first site in South Asia to be so declared. Miniature votive images or toy models from Harappa, c. 2500 BCE. Terracotta figurines indicate the yoking of zebu oxen for pulling a cart and the presence of the

https://medium.com/@listingbee/when-most-people-think-of-ancient-civilizations-they-might-think-of-the-sumerians-or-the-egyptians-7fe5d5ecae43
When most people think of ancient civilizations, they might think of the Sumerians or the Egyptians. However, there's one site that's been causing a lot of excitement in the archaeological

https://medium.com/@piotrmak/the-great-flood-unraveling-the-connections-between-the-sumerians-noahs-ark-the-bible-and-69f028dee2ea
The Sumerians were an ancient civilization that flourished in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) from around 4500 BC to 2000 BC. They are credited with inventing the first writing system, called

https://medium.com/@humanoriginproject/the-first-civilization-on-earth-sumerians-from-ancient-mesopotamia-f6c888bcae08
Eridu is said to have marked the beginning of the Sumerian civilization around 5400 BCE and lasted until around 600 BCE. From there, rulers are named up until the end of the Isin dynasty, about