Sumer The Scene is Set: Ubaid The Sumerians Eridu to Uruk      From Horticulture to Agriculture Wealth, Status and War      The Goddess in Transition Nammu: The Sumerian Great Mother Transcendent to Anthropomorphic The Underworld: Ereshkigal All photos, maps and other images can be clicked on to take you to the site where we found the image. If you own the copyright to any such image and do not want us to publicise it for you in this way, please contact the webmaster and it will be removed.

The First Civilization: Sumer Review "The First Civilization: Sumer". Sumer was in Mesopotamia, Greek for ‘Land Between Two Rivers’. It was situated in what is now Iraq, on a plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Maps, detailed text and other images can be found on the Ancient History Encyclopedia site. Since the images are explicitly copyright protected, we cannot reproduce them here. Visit the site. Columns decorated by the Sumerians in a mosaic-like technique with polychrome terra-cotta cones, from Uruk, Mesopotamia, early 3rd millennium bc. They are now in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. This image came from the Sumer, Ancient region, Iraq page on the Encyclopaedia Britannica website. Visit the site to see more. How do Creationist calculate the biblical age of the planet to be 6000 years? Find out here.

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