Yet as inventors of the written language, they are the oldest peoples of whom we have any first-hand knowledge about.
Hundreds of thousands of clay tablets describing everything from “Frank owes Mitch two heads of cattle” and odes to beer drinking on a sunny late afternoon, to aches and gripes about how things are going downhill and these damn kids today, things were so much better in MY days yadda yadda yadda.
It would be pretty short though, we don’t know much about the Sumerians
Except they were great at doing sums, hence the name.
“Pfft… Sumerian you are!”
Yet as inventors of the written language, they are the oldest peoples of whom we have any first-hand knowledge about.
Hundreds of thousands of clay tablets describing everything from “Frank owes Mitch two heads of cattle” and odes to beer drinking on a sunny late afternoon, to aches and gripes about how things are going downhill and these damn kids today, things were so much better in MY days yadda yadda yadda.
Fuck Ea Nasir.
All my homies boycott Ea Nasir’s copper