Sumerians Archive

Sumerians Built A Huge ‘Anti-Drought Machine’ To Save Ancient City Of Girsu From Destruction

AncientPages.com | November 23, 2023

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Sumerians were an advanced ancient civilization fully aware of the dangers climate can pose. They naturally knew there was no survival without water,

Winged Sun Disk – One Of The Oldest And Most Important Solar Symbols

Ancient Symbols

Winged Sun Disk: One Of The Oldest And Most Important Solar And Religious Symbols

AncientPages.com | March 15, 2019

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The winged sun disk has been found in many cultures worldwide from very ancient times. As one of the oldest religious and solar symbols,

Archaeoastronomy

Elusive Planet Mercury As Seen Through The Eyes Of Ancient Astronomers

AncientPages.com | December 31, 2018

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In ancient times the elusive planet Mercury was known under a variety of different names such as Nabu, Thoth, Hermes, Apollo, Buddha and

Ancient History Facts

World’s Oldest Paycheck Reveals Ancient Sumerian Workers Were Paid In Beer

AncientPages.com | November 22, 2018

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - A roughly 5,000-year-old cuneiform stone tablet, in possession of the British Museum in London shows how workers were paid their daily rations in

Archaeology

Ancient Underground Tombs And Lightening God In Peru – Complex Concepts Of Death And Renewal Revealed

AncientPages.com | May 22, 2018

AncientPages.com - Every ancient culture had some form of afterlife beliefs and these were reflected in their burial customs. As previously mentioned on Ancient Pages, Sumerians for example, respected

Ancient Symbols

Nazar Amulet – Blue Color Wards Off The Evil Eye According To Ancient Belief

AncientPages.com | March 13, 2018

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Millions of modern people believe in the power of the Evil Eye, just like our ancestors did in ancient times. This belief has nothing

Kiln Was Invented In Mesopotamia In 6,000 B.C.

Ancient History Facts

Kiln Was Invented In Mesopotamia Around 6,000 B.C.

AncientPages.com | March 7, 2018

AncientPages.com - Kilns have been used since very ancient time to turn objects made from clay into pottery, tiles and bricks. A kiln is an oven or furnace or a

Underworld was not a pleasant realm of existence, a dark, dusty land, where the bread did not taste good, their garments were only feathers to protect them from the cold and water to drink was brackish.

Civilizations

Death And Afterlife In Sumerian Beliefs

AncientPages.com | May 12, 2017

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Our knowledge about the Mesopotamian afterlife beliefs comes from literary texts recorded on cuneiform clay tablets and most of this material is Sumerian. According

Ruins of Uruk — The New York of Ancient Mesopotamia/Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft

Artifacts

Sumerian King List – Ancient Record Of Kingship That Has Long Been Of Great Interest

AncientPages.com | January 22, 2016

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - One of the most intriguing ancient documents representing Sumerian literature is the Sumerian King List, produced at the end of the third millennium BC (most

Ancient Symbols

Inscription On Pokotia Monolith Reveals Sumerians Visited Peru Thousands Of Years Ago

AncientPages.com | September 1, 2015

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - This time our quest for the hidden history of mankind takes us to Peru where we encounter an enigmatic inscription that offers evidence Sumerians

Artifacts

Controversial Artifact Fuente Magna Could Re-Write Ancient History – America’s Mysterious Rosetta Stone

AncientPages.com | October 18, 2014

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Fuente Magna is a very controversial artifact that is sometimes referred to as America's Rosetta Stone. This mysterious object raises a number