The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature Catalogues: by date | by number | in full | Website info: navigation help | site description | display conventions | recent changes Project info: consolidated bibliography | about the project | credits and copyright | links The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature Now, I swear by the sun god Utu on this very day -- and my younger ...

Links to Halloran lexicon of Sumerian, paper analyzing the proto-language, and other Mesopotamian-related sites.

Welcome to the Sumerian Text Archive The Sumerian Text Archive offers a growing collection of transliterated Sumerian texts. These texts have been transliterated using only characters from the ASCII alphabet so that the text files can be used on every type of computer. As a result, however, the transliterations deviate in a number of ways from what is common practice in Sumerology. The list of ...

Rise Of The Human Race The Civilizations Of The Ancient Near East Introduction Paleoanthropologists estimate that between three and four million years ago, ancestors of the human race appeared on earth, naked in a world of enemies. The skills necessary for survival were mastered over many hundreds of thousands of years. Agriculture and the ways of life it engendered were the most important ...

The Royal Game of Ur Article by Catherine Soubeyrand. This time we leave Egypt to move East and reach the region of Mesopotamia. The Royal Game of Ur gets its name from two boardgames which were found in tombs by Sir Leonard Wooley, who was carrying out excavations in the ancient city of Ur in the 1920s. The two boards date from before 2600 BCE. Each of the game boards is composed of a set of ...

Woolley's excavation of RT 800 (Queen Pu-Abi's Grave) The care with which Sir Leonard Woolley excavated the Royal Cemetery of Ur is justly famous, and the difficult conditions under which he worked would prove challenging to even the most skilled archaeologist today. The relationship between graves RT 789 and RT 800 illustrates this point. RT 789 preceded RT 800, as attested by the location of ...