1 His research material is based on ancient and Sumerian texts, which he translates himself.

2 Called Meluha by the ancient Sumerians, it appears that the civilization arrived intact from across the sea.

3 Sumerian gem-cutters also took advantage to a limited degree of another way of exploiting the banded structure of onyx.

4 The Sumerians are the most ancient users of alcohol that we know about.

5 I mean, why doesn't anyone speak Sumerian anymore?

6 Sumerian religion was squarely in this world.

7 This Sumerian learning had a very great vitality.

8 The Sumerian, however, had little stone available.

9 The first true writing we know of is Sumerian cuneiform- consisting mainly of wedge-shaped impressions on clay tablets - whichwas used more than 5000 years ago in Mesopotamia.

10 Sumerian religion was polytheistic, that is, the Sumerians believed in and worshipped many gods.

11 At the same time, the Akkadian language replaced Sumerian, which continued to be used by scribes only for monumental inscriptions and religious literature.

12 Sumerian religion was polytheistic, that is, the Sumerians and worshipped many gods.

13 After Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian domination of the turns, the number of gods, as in other parts of the human rare.

14 Although we don't know much about Sumerian law, scholars agree that the Code of Hammurabi, written by a Babylonian monarch, reproduces Sumerian law fairly exactly.

15 The first abaci appeared in Sumerian and Babylonian times, were used by the Romans, but reached the height of their development in China from the 14th century AD onward.

16 The Sumerian capital boasted paved roads, tree-lined avenues, schools, poets, scribes, and stunning works of art and architecture of the kind discovered by Woolley and his team.

17 Sumerian and Akkadian Babylonians inherited the achievements of human civilization and carry forward the civilization of Mesopotamia to the peak.

18 Sumerian civilization rises to new heights under enlightened rulers of Lagash.

19 Sumerian myth , Hittites myth, a myth of their letters have a great impact.

20 Gilgamesh was the hero of the ancient Sumerian epic poem, The Song of Gilgamesh, written about 2900 B.C.

21 According to this viewpoint, the Sumerian tribe who the Mesopotamian civilization the Korean race.

22 A more rare and highly ingenious way of decorating carnelian was invented by the Sumerians.

23 But she is best known as one of the Sumerian demons of storm and night.

24 An ancient city of Mesopotamia in the Euphrates River valley of present-day central Iraq. Its extensive ruins have yielded valuable archaeological evidence about Sumerian culture.

25 So too the stories of Moses and of Samson have Sumerian and Babylonian parallels.

26 The Mesopotamian view on the supernatural is an inextricable mixture of Sumerian and Akkadian origin,[] influenced by an unknown substrate population.

27 The administration was centralised and the Semitic language Akkadian (named after Sargon's capital) was introduced as the official language in preference to Sumerian.

28 Huaxia nationality was from Tigris and Euphrates valley, they were of the same race with Sumerian.

29 The earliest known archaeological evidence of a canoe was unearthed at the tomb of a Sumerian king near the Euphrates River. This relic is estimated to be around 6000 years old.

30 Our oldest dream story, inscribed in cuneiform millennia ago, tells of the Sumerian shepherd king Dumuzi.

31 The bricks of the Ziggurat are stamped with the name of Ur Nammu, the Sumerian king who built it.

32 Contemporaneously , or possibly a little later, there developed a great Sumerian civilisation.

33 There are, however, massive brick pillars in Sumerian buildings at Ur and at Kish.

34 What are the other civilizations that are contemporary with the Sumerian civilization?

35 The world's oldest arch survives here, together with some of the oldest known writing:many of the bricks of the Ziggurat are stamped with the name of Ur Nammu, the Sumerian king who built it.