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How accurate is Berossus’ Sumerian king list?

Berossus, a Babylonian priest writing in Greek, preserved a version of the Sumerian King List that includes rulers said to ...
insider.si.edu

The invention of cuneiform writing in Sumer Jean-Jacques Glassner ; translated and edited by Zainab Bahrani and Marc Van de Mieroop

1. The Sumerian Account of the Invention of Writing -- 2. Time and Place of the Invention -- 3. Received Ideas: The Pictographic Origins of Cuneiform Writing -- 4. Received Ideas: The Origin of ...
The Washington Post

Miguel Civil, preeminent scholar of world’s oldest written language, dies at 92

You have to go back 4,000 years, colleagues said, to find someone as fluent in Sumerian as Miguel Civil. A Catalonian-born professor with a purported photographic memory, he spent decades studying ...

World’s oldest civilisation – Where is it and what are its most fascinating fun facts?

Mesopotamia, the land between rivers, birthed the world's oldest civilization around 3500 BCE. The innovative Sumerians ...
Gizmodo

5,500-Year-Old Seals Offer New Clues About the Birth of Writing

For centuries, scholars have puzzled over the origins of the world’s first writing system. Now, a study by Italian researchers reveals that some of these earliest proto-cuneiform signs may have ...
The Boston Globe

Miguel Civil, pre-eminent scholar of world’s oldest written language, dies at 92

WASHINGTON — You have to go back 4,000 years, colleagues said, to find someone as fluent in Sumerian as Miguel Civil. A Catalonian-born professor with a purported photographic memory, he spent decades ...