Directory of Sumer Resources

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This category lists sites devoted to the ancient history of Sumer.

Subcategories

• Epigraphy
• Religion

Resources in This Category

• Ancient Sumer History

  http://ancientneareast.tripod.com/Sumer.html
  Information on important city-states, prehistorical and historical data, images, and maps.

• Aphrodite (Inanna)

  http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/aphro_ii.html
  Extracts from texts of Sumerian King List and Epic of Gilgamesh.

• Crystalinks: Sumerian

  http://www.crystalinks.com/sumer.html
  A personal collection of articles and photographs covering art, language, mythology, and religious practices.

• Map of Sumerian Neolithic and Chalcolithic Archaeological Sites

  http://www.sumerian.org/map.htm
  Sumerian migration.

• Proverbs from Ki-en-gir (Sumer)

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/2000sumer-proverbs.asp
  List of sayings.

• Sargon and the Vanishing Sumerians

  http://www.fsmitha.com/h1/ch03.htm
  Brief historical account.

• Sumer

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer
  A history of the people that settled in southern Mesopotamia.

• The Ludlul Bêl Nimeqi

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/1700ludlul.asp
  A story with striking similarities to the Book of Job, c. 1700 B.C.E.

• The Reforms of Urukagina

  http://history-world.org/reforms_of_urukagina.htm
  The rule of the king around 4000 B.C., the world's first reformer.

• The Sumerian King List

  http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/sumking.html
  Surviving clay tablet dated by ascribe who wrote it in the reign of King Utukhegal of Erech (Uruk).

• The Sumerians

  http://www.fsmitha.com/h1/ch01.htm
  Essay on writing and religion, power and politics, and paradise and a great flood.

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