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 ...

So ubiquitous to daily life was beer that, in the texts Sumerians left behind, one of the most-used cuneiform pictographs is the one that represents beer. Mesopotamian writing and art also ...

The Ancient Mesopotamian poem entitled the Epic of ... In the poem, Gilgamesh is described as the son of a minor Sumerian goddess Ninsun and her mortal consort, the postdiluvian king Lugulbanda ...

the ancient Mesopotamian civilization of Sumer arose. Sumerians developed what is the oldest known example of written language, as well as art, and especially architecture that has survived into ...