He maintains that Menes was at one and the same time the Sumerian emperor in Mesopotamia and the first dynastic king of Egypt, a crown-colony of his world-empire.

Ancient Sumer was in the southern part of a place called Mesopotamia. Most of the area now falls in modern-day Iraq. Cities were built along the rivers Tigris and Euphrates. Being close to the ...

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Millennia ago, in the Fertile Crescent, the land nestled between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in what is now present-day Iran, the ancient Mesopotamian civilization of Sumer arose. Sumerians ...

We shall base our discussion mainly on materials from Sumerian literary compositions that ... the second millennium b.c. can rightly be said to mark the high point of ancient Mesopotamian religious ...

But above all, the Sumerians were a kingdom of sculptors who, in seesawing between realism and abstraction, seem almost modern. A design on a piece of pottery in early Mesopotamian art showing ...

A Mesopotamian example of this would be Adapa ... if one cross-references his paternity with another ancient text, the Sumerian King List, 3 one finds that Gilgamesh is also listed as the son ...