“Sumerian” is the name given by the Semitic-speaking Akkadians to non-Semitic speaking people living in Mespotamia. City-states in the region, which were organized by canals and boundary stones and dedicated to a patron god or goddess, first rose to power during the prehistoric Ubaid and Uruk periods. Sumerian written history began in the 27th century BCE, […]
Sumerians
The Sumerian Flood Story
THOMAS SWAN Thomas Swan has a PhD in experimental psychology. He specializes in the cognitive science of religion. In the Sumerian flood story, the gods unleash the Deluge, a terrible storm that floods the world. Simon de Myle, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The Original Flood Myth The story of Noah’s Ark first appeared […]
Sumerian Polytheism, Sin and a Great Flood Like people before the rise of farming, the Sumerians saw movement around them as the magic of spirits, magic being the only explanation they had for how things worked. These spirits were their gods, and with many spirits around, the Sumerians believed in many gods – gods that […]
The Sumerians
STORY SCHEDULE TOPICS STORIES UPDATED: OCT 8, 2019 ORIGINAL: DEC 7, 2017 Sumer HISTORY.COM EDITORS DEA Picture Library/De Agostini/Getty Images CONTENTS Sumerian Civilization Sumerian Language And Literature Sumerian Art and Architecture Sumerian Science Sumerian Culture Gilgamesh Sumerian Power Struggles Sargon Ur-Nammu What Happened to Sumer? SOURCES Sumer was an ancient civilization founded in the Mesopotamia […]
Sumerians and their History
by Joshua J. Mark published on 09 October 2019 Send to Google Classroom: Listen to this article, narrated by David Draffin Detail of the War Scene of the Standard of Ur Showing Sumerian Warriors Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin (CC BY-NC-SA) The Sumerians were the people of southern Mesopotamia whose civilization flourished between c. 4100-1750 BCE. Their name comes from the region which is […]