Article: Sumer

Article: Sumerians
A Dictionary of World History;      217 words ...Sumerians A people living in southern Mesopotamia in the 4th and...developed in Sumer, such as URUK , Eridu, and UR . The Sumerians are credited with inventing the cuneiform system of writing...culmination with the capture and devastation of Ur. The Sumerians at this point disappear from history, but the ...

Article: Pagan trinity, holy trinity; the legacy of the Sumerians in western civilization.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Reference & Research Book News;  February 1, 2008 ;     176 words ......trinity, holy trinity; the legacy of the Sumerians in western civilization. Dickin, Alan...libraries and influence others to do so. The Sumerians were most certainly powerful, but few...particularly the Mesopotamia of the Sumerians, by examining geological, archeological...

Article: Mesopotamia
Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages;      700+ words ......similarities. The main civilizations were the Sumerians (3000 – 2000 b.c.e.), the Akkadians...c.e.). The people of Mesopotamia The Sumerians created the earliest civilization in...populations near 35,000 citizens. Although most Sumerians made their living by farming, professionals...

Article: Shamash
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      39 words ..., sun god of Semitic origin, worshiped in Babylonia and Assyria. He was one of the great deities of ancient Middle Eastern religions, god of law, order, and justice. The chief center of his cult was Sippar. In Sumerian civilization he was called Utu.

Article: Nippur
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      82 words ......later rebuilt and restored many times. Over 40,000 clay tablets found there serve as a primary source of information on Sumerian civilization. Assurbanipal erected a ziggurat in Nippur. Relics of the Persian and Parthian periods have also been unearthed at the...

Article: Sumerian and Babylonian art
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      700+ words ......Sumerian Art The art of the Sumerian civilization, as revealed by excavations...raw materials of art, the Sumerians traded crops from their...archaeological evidence of Sumerian civilization during that transitional...

Article: Uruk
A Dictionary of World History;      48 words ...Uruk One of the leading cities of the SUMERIANS . A community occupied the site as early as 5000 BC and in the 3rd millennium BC the city was surrounded by a 9.5-km (6-mile) wall...

Article: Water wrongs: why can't we get it right the first time?
Environmental Law;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......unpopulated desert. The ancient Sumerians who lived there around...Conquests and the fall of Sumerian civilization followed. People emigrated...and excusable that the Sumerians did not identify and reverse...who left the area as the Sumerian civilization dissolved moved north...

Article: Kish
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      108 words ......Mesopotamia. In the early 3d millennium BC, Kish was a Semitic city. Although it was one of the provincial outposts of Sumerian civilization, it had a cultural style of its own. There is an excavated palace of Sargon I of Agade, a native of Kish, and a great...

Article: Sargon
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      96 words ......dynasty founded by Sargon lasted approximately 160 years; it was destroyed (c.2180 BC) by the Gutian barbarians from the Zagros Mts. Sargon's dynasty did much to spread Semitic and Sumerian civilization. His name appears also as Sharukkin.

Article: Geoquest.
Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication;  November 2, 2001 ;     97 words ...The Sumerian civilization, one of the world's earliest, developed in the area around these two rivers in about 3500 B.C. Both rivers flow southward from...

Article: Sir Charles Leonard Woolley
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      134 words ......where his findings did much to further the study of the Sumerian civilization in the 3d millennium BC Woolley oversaw the excavation...Atchana (1937-39 and 1946-49). His writings include The Sumerians (1928), Digging Up the Past (1930), Ur of the Chaldees...

Article: Turbans
Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages;      242 words ......women as early as the Sumerian civilization, which began in 3000 b.c.e. The Sumerians lived in the fertile...for dressing hair that Sumerians practiced. Though little...the area in which the Sumerians lived, we do know that...

Article: lyre
World Encyclopedia;      73 words ...lyre Ancient stringed musical instrument. Used originally by the Sumerians, it was introduced into Egypt and Assyria in the second millennium bc . In classical Greek times it had seven strings supported...