The Sumerians: Humanity’s First Blueprint for Civilization

The Sumerians, who flourished in southern Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq), between about 4000 and 2000 BCE, stand among the earliest—and arguably the most influential—civilizations in human history. Nestled between the two life-giving rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates, the Sumerians confronted both abundant opportunity and severe challenge. Their responses—to nature, to social pressures, to […]

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The Sumerians: Humanity’s First Blueprint for Civilization

How a forgotten people between two rivers invented everything we take for granted today

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I’ve just finished two amazing novels by Emily H Wilson, part of The Sumerians trilogy.

They are based on ancient Sumerian myths and stories about the likes of Inanna, the Goddess, who lived on as Ishtar, Aphrodite and Venus, and Gilgamesh, he of the famous Epic of Gilgamesh. She has turned them into real people with a gentle nod to where the Gods & Goddesses may have come from.

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