Tablet Inscribed in Babylonian with a Ritual for the Observances of Eclipses Mesopotamia, seleucid period(ca. third-first century...

Tablet Inscribed in Akkadian with a Fragment of the Epic of Etana Mesopotamia, First Dynasty of Babylon(ca.1895–1595 B.C.)ClayMLC 1363...

Tablet Inscribed in Akkadian with a Fragment of the Babylonian Flood Story of Epic of Athrasis Mesopotamia, First Dynasty of Babylon,...

Stone Foundation Tablet Inscribed With the Name and Titles of King Ur-Namma in Sumerian Inscribed: Ur-Namma, king of Ur, king of Sumer...

Enheduanna (2285-2250 BCE) is the world’s first author and was the daughter (either literally or figuratively) of the great...

The Hymn to Ninkasi is at once a song of praise to Ninkasi, the Sumerian goddess of beer, and an ancient recipe for brewing. Written down...

The Epic of Gilgamesh was originally a Sumerian poem, later translated into Akkadian, and first written down some 700 – 1000 years after...

Literature (from the Latin Littera meaning 'letters’ and referring to an acquaintance with the written word) is the written work of a...

The Sumerian language was spoken in southern Mesopotamia before the 2nd millennium BCE and was the first language to be written in the...