Features a tablet narration from the Epic of Gilgamesh, and a genealogy of kings descended from heaven.
Details the 3,800 year old recipe used by scholars to concoct a Mesopotamian brew.
Describes the first city of Sumer and its temple structures and ziggurats. Details the discovery of cuneiform tablets and the story of Gilgamesh.
Explores Sumerian culture, cuneiform, and cosmology for the origins of the crescent and star symbolism of the Turkish flag.
Chronicles the history of the ancient Sumerian civilization, language, economy, and religion.
Features extensive documents detailing the history and culture of Sumererians, Akkadians, and Amorites and their religious center at Nippur.
Offers a series of modern translations of proverbs from ancient Sumer.
Offers translations of Sumerian cuneiform inscriptions pertaining to the poor.
Provides facts about the reign of the Sumerian king of the third dynasty of Ur who is credited with devising the first law code in human history.
Details the civilization responsible for cuneiform script, and the Sumerian kingdoms in Kish and Erech.
Features an introduction to Sumerian culture and history and offers fun quizzes and student class reports on the civilization.
Offers a penitential prayer from the mid-seventh century discovered on a Sumerian tablet.
Features an image gallery of Sumerian artifacts including seal impressions, harp inlays, and an Ur headdress.
Explores the archaeological discoveries depicting the cosmology of ancient Sumer, and describes the seven judges of hell known as the Annunaki.
Chronicles the five cities and eight kings of the Sumerian empire.
Features counting symbols and Sumerian proverbs. Also provides a map of archaeological sites.
Furnishes Ur and Akkadian period texts as well as Royal Inscriptions and Babylonian text files.
Describes the Royal Cemetery findings from the early Dynastic period of Sumer.
Offers a treaty between the two Sumerian cities of Umma and Lagash and their respective kings. Details the succession of King Eannatum.