The Sumerians lived in Mesopotamia from about 4500 to 1750 B.C.E., and developed a number of technologies that changed the ...

The Sumerian society was divided into different classes which determined their social status. The highest rank was possessed by the priest-king ... second category came high officials and scribes ...

The Sumerians introduced writing ... to trespass farther—but then gradually moved toward realism. Kings and high priests were realistically portrayed, but ordinary people placed stylized ...

As part of his efforts to consolidate his new empire, Sargon appointed his daughter Enheduanna as High Priest of Nanna, the Moon God, in the Sumerian city of Ur. The name 'Enheduanna' is a ...

high water [will come]. The Zodiac as we know it, probably comes from the Sumerians as well. They identified 12 constellations in the sky based on what they imagined they could see. One ancient ...

Her son, a high priest, called her “the chief physician,” and her portrait appears in a tomb in the Valley of the Kings. 2300 B.C.: Enheduanna A Sumerian woman appointed as high priestess of the moon ...

In the present Tel Telloh of the Iraqi province of Dhi Qar is the site of the ancient Sumerian city of Ngirsu (sometimes transcribed ... when Henri de Genouillac, a priest and archaeologist ...

Whilst by no means an entirely undisputed theory, ancient historians generally believe the emergence of civilised states such as Sumer was closely ... its administrators, priests and other social ...