The story of how the first cities rose from southern Mesopotamia has long fascinated scientists and historians. Many explanations point to fertile soil, farming, and trade networks as the engines of ...
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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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Ancient Mesopotamian pottery shows that people understood symmetry and division 4,000 years before the Sumerians invented numbers
Until now, it was believed that mathematical thinking only began once people gained the knowledge of numbers and writing.
While historians debate, what if ancient texts aren’t just stories, but survival guides? Consider the Sumerian King List—Mesopotamia’s version of a royal family scrapbook—as an early attempt to ...
Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B. C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus; through August 17, 2003 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Joan Aruz (ed). Art of the First ...
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