Tag: ancient sumer
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Sumerian King List Still Puzzles Historians After More Than a Century of Research
from theepochtimes.com: Out of the many incredible artefacts that have been recovered from sites in Iraq where flourishing Sumerian cities once stood, few have been more intriguing that the Sumerian King List, an ancient manuscript originally recorded in the Sumerian language, listing kings of Sumer (ancient southern Iraq) from Sumerian and neighbouring dynasties, their supposed…
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Who are Gilgamesh and Enkidu?
from kimgraaemunch.wordpress.com: “There are at least two levels or stories in this epos. There is the story about two human beings and their endeavors, and there is the story about mankind, where Enkidu symbolizes the sentient soul and Gilgamesh the Mind soul, the Ego. On the personal plane we learn through Enkidu the descent into…