Tag: cuneiform
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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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The Celestial Battle: Babylonian Epic of Creation
The Babylonian Creation Myth or Enuma Elish was recovered in 1849 among the ruins of Ashurbanipal’s library in Nineveh (modern day Mosul, Iraq).