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		Dubsar, the Cuneiform Scribe Welcomes You To Ancient Nippur ^Votes:0 web hosting domain names photo sharing Welcome to Our Home on the East Side of Nippur, the Center of the World of Sumer and Akkad 40 Centuries Ago! Dubsar, the Cuneiform Scribe His Old Donkey Anshe Welcome to our sun-dried mudbrick house. We have several rooms clustered around a courtyard. Steps lead up to the roof on our one-story structure. Palm tree logs span the top of the rooms and are packed with mud. Frequent repairs are needed from the erratic rain storms. The weather is hot, so most activity takes place on the roof or in the courtyard. Before you leave, please view and sign our guestbook, The Nippur Town Tablet. Buttons are at the bottom of the page. What do you think of people who lived 4,000 years ago? My old donkey Anshe and I live on the east side of the metropolis of Nippur, Read More Go to Site


		History Begins At Sumer - Essay 38 ^Votes:0 History Begins at Sumer... ~~ Paul V. Hartman ~~ For nomadic hunter-gatherers to settle in one spot, and thus establish a "civilization" with all that entails, including a written history, it is necessary that the ground produce either all of the food or a sufficient supplement to that which is hunted. It should therefore come as no suprise that the first civilizations arise where the ground is most fertile - in the region of rivers: Tigres, Eurphrates, Nile. It is believed that agriculture first appears about 8000 BC along with the domestication of some animals; pottery will appear about 7000 BC. The people who first settled the valley of the Tigris and Euphrates were called the Sumerians. They divided all labor into various skills, and they built cities of mud and brick. On a larger scal Read More Go to Site

		Nippur: At the Center of the World of Sumer and Akkad ^Votes:0 Nippur At The Center Of The World In the cities of Sumer, written documentation for political, administrative, and legal purposes was monopolized by a small elite group of professional scribes. Mastering their cuneiform (that is, wedge-shaped) writing system was quite a task. Above are the expressions for citizen of Nippur and the assembly of Nippur . The scribe pressed his stylus onto wet, clay tablets as he made use of a large number of characters to express the syllables, word signs and determinatives (word classifiers) of the Sumerian and Akkadian languages. This system was much more complex than our small group of Roman characters representing individual letters rather than full syllables or words. The Situation of Nippur Nippur was a substantial city for its time, although small by A Read More Go to Site

		Search Results: St. Mary's College of Maryland ^Votes:0 HOME ACADEMICS ADMISSIONS ATHLETICS LIBRARY OFFICES & SERVICES A -Z Index Search: Pages People Quicklinks: -- Select One -- About the College Academics Admissions Alumni Athletics Blackboard Directory E-mail Employment Events Calendar Financial Aid Library News & Events Student Life Support the College Prospective Students Current Students Parents Alumni Friends & Visitors Faculty & Staff Give to SMCM Search Results © 2007, St. Mary's College of Maryland \| Privacy \| Copyright Notice \| Contact Us St. Mary's College of Maryland 18952 E. Fisher Rd St. Mary's City, MD 20686-3001 240-895-2000 Read More Go to Site

		temple1 ^Votes:0 GO TO HE WHO SAW... PART II HE WHO SAW EVERYTHING - PART I A verse version of the Epic of Gilgamesh by Robert Temple, Rider, an imprint of Random Century Group Ltda, 1991, London, Sydney, Auckland, Johannerburg. All rights reserved. Here included for help in research and studies purposes PROLOGUE He who saw everything in the broad-boned earth, and knew what was to be known Who had experienced what there was, and had become familiar with all things He, to whom wisdom clung like cloak, and who dwelt together with Existence in Harmony He knew the secret of things and laid them bare. And told of those times before the Flood In his city, Uruk, he made the walls, which formed a rampart stretching on And the temple called Eanna, which was the house of An, the Sky God And also of Inanna, Goddes of Read More Go to Site

		~~~The En-hedu-Ana Research Pages ~~~ ^Votes:0 ~~~The En-hedu-Ana Research Pages ~~~ En-hedu-Ana is a title and means "The High Priestess [named] Ornament of the Sky" 'en'=High Priestess 'hedu'=Ornament 'Ana'=of the Sky/Heaven or of the God of the Sky/Heaven The 'En-hedu-Ana Research Pages' is the only website solely devoted to unearthing En-hedu-Ana --the first known author of all literature. En-hedu-Ana was the great High Priestess of the Moon-god Nanna, at Ur (ancient Iraq). She was the first known author in recorded history to write in the first person. There were many anonymous scribes who wrote before her but she was the first to identify herself in her writings. En-hedu-Ana lived around 2300-2225 BCE and was revered as the most important religious figure of her day. Through her powerful incantations/songs to Inanna, the goddess Read More Go to Site

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