Mesopotamia / Bronze Age
Enheduanna: The First Named Author in History
From Ur's ziggurats to Inanna's hymns: Enheduanna, high priestess and the world's first named author, speaks across four millennia.
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Mesopotamia
3 articles in this collection.
Mesopotamia / Bronze Age
Hammurabi of Babylon: Architect of an Empire and Visionary Lawmaker
Hammurabi shaped Babylonian power through law, conquest, administration, and a political imagination that still echoes today.
Mesopotamia / Early Dynastic Sumer
The Genesis of Education: Unveiling the Ancient Sumerian School System
Ancient Sumerian schools, the edubba or House of Tablets, trained scribes through copying, discipline, clay tablets, and the power of writing.