Sumerian literature constitutes the earliest known corpus of recorded literature, including the religious writings and other traditional stories maintained by the Sumerian civilization and largely preserved by …

Nov 6, 2025 · Sumer, or the ‘land of civilized kings’, flourished in Mesopotamia, now modern-day Iraq, around 4500 BC. Sumerians created an advanced civilization with its own system of elaborate …

The corpus contains Sumerian texts in transliteration, English prose translations and bibliographical information for each composition. The transliterations and the translations can be searched, browsed …

May 19, 2025 · Are Sumerian texts real? Yes—and they’re the earliest written records in human history. Learn how experts proved their authenticity here

Sumerian cuneiform is the earliest known writing system. Its origins can be traced back to about 8,000 BC and it developed from the pictographs and other symbols used to represent trade goods and …

In 1851 he published the text, transliteration, and translation of the Accadian version of the Behistun inscription, the large trilingual to whose text he alone had access.

Therefore, a user needs to know exactly what text he or she is seeking or be willing to spend substantial time browsing. This is particularly regrettable since the corpus of Sumerian literature is not widely …

Sumerian literature represents the earliest known body of written works, encompassing a vast array of religious texts, traditional narratives, and other literary forms developed by the Sumerian civilization.

The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions (= ETCSRI) project aims to create an annotated, grammatically and morphologically analyzed, transliterated, trilingual (Sumerian-English …

Jun 12, 2021 · The project, which is directed by Walther Sallaberger and funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, seeks to conduct a comprehensive analysis of third millennium Sumerian …