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Suimerian is now part of southern Iraq, near in Persian Gulf.
Ur was a port city on the Persian Gulf founded in the 5th Millennium BCE by the Sumerian people.
Some famous statues of cats are 'Cat in Tall Grass' by Carl Walters. Another is the Persian cat sculpture by Richard Recchia. A third is a piece entitled 'Paired Cats' which is a bronze sculpture by Georgia Gerber.
Cuneiform writing was invented by the Sumerians for writing their own language, but it ended up being adapted to write many other languages as well, including Akkadian, Elamite, Eblaite and Old Persian. Consequently there are many cuneiform texts that are not Sumerian.
There were also the Sumerian, Chaldean, and Assyrian Empires , as well as the kingdom of Egypt. But these weren't the major Empires.
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How does Mesopotamian sculpture differ from Egypt sculpture?
how did the politically Sumerian organization affect society
It was written in the Sumerian Kingdom of Uruk, in later Mesopotamia, roughly today's Iraq. ____________________ Although the original Sumerian poems upon which the epic is based were a product of the city states of Sumer, the original epic of Gilgamesh itself was probably produced in the time of the Old Akkadian or Old Babylonian kingdoms. It is important to distinguish between the originally independent Sumerian texts and the unified epic that starts to appear around 1800 BCE.
Which cuneiform are you refering to? Akkadian? Babylonian? Sumerian? Hittite? Old Persian? Ugaritic? Hittite cuneiform is kind of an anomaly because it is Indo-European language rather than Semitic.
The Sumerian government was monarchy.
Who was the legendary Sumerian king?