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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Babylonian mythology, Irkalla was the underworld from which there was no return. The realm of the dead or the lower world was
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Old Testament mentions the city Uruk as Erech, and its original Sumerian name is Unug. What we know today about Uruk comes
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The goddess of the ancient Sumerian city of Uruk is known as Inanna. She is frequently mentioned in academic literature. During the early
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Enmerkar is a mythological, semi-historical character from Sumerian legends. He represents the first dynasty (3500 - 2750 BC), including great Mesopotamian heroes, Meskiaggasher (his
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In 1969, members of the German Warka expedition discovered an ancient damaged clay tablet in Uruk, the first city built by Gilgamesh about
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Ninkasi was a Sumerian goddess of beer and alcohol worshiped in Mesopotamia, an area between the large rivers known as Tigris and Euphrates, that
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Dating back to 500 B.C., the Pyrgi gold tablets were discovered in 1964 in an excavation of a sanctuary in ancient Pyrgi, the
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AncientPages.com - The Statue of Liberty has become the most cherished symbol of the United States of America. What we were not taught in school were the truly significant
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Sumerian pantheon included many deities but initially, the most important of them were Anu, Enlil, Enki, and Ninhursag. In this article, we present
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Ereshkigal, a granddaughter of Enlil, is the queen of the underworld or Irkalla ( the land of the dead). She is older sister of
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Famed “Mask of Warka” also known as the "Lady of Uruk" (due to its resemblance to the Sumerian goddess Inanna) is dated to
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The oldest evidence of printing is the stamping of inscriptions into the soft clay of bricks before firing. This was done by Sumerian
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