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4,400-Year-Old Sumerian Tablet Finally Decoded, Reveals Myth of Storm God's Captivity
The ancient clay tablet from 2400 BCE was found in an ancient Mesopotamian city and revealed an unknown Sumerian mythology in ...
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"The Fox That Rescued The Storm God": 4,400-Year-Old Sumerian Tablet With Previously Unknown Myth Analyzed For First Time
A scholar has recently discovered a previously unknown Sumerian myth inscribed on a long-overlooked 4,400-year-old tablet.
Study translates fragmentary ancient Sumerian myth around 4,400 years old
A recent study by Dr. Jana Matuszak, published in the academic journal Iraq, examines the mythical narrative contained in a tablet (Ni 12501) dating to the Early Dynastic IIIb period (ca. 2540–2350 ...
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Who Kissed First? Archaeology Has an Answer. - The New York Times
The Barton Cylinder, excavated in the ancient Sumerian city of Nippur in 1899 and dating to around 2400 B.C. The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology ...