Sumer (/ ˈsuːmər /) is the earliest known civilization, located in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia (now south-central Iraq), emerging during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages between the sixth and fifth millennium BC.

2019年10月9日 · The Sumerians were the people of southern Mesopotamia whose civilization flourished between c. 4100-1750 BCE. Their name comes from the region which is frequently – and incorrectly – referred to as a “country”. Sumer was never a cohesive political entity, however, but a region of city -states each with its own king.

Alabaster, Early Dynastic III (2550–2500 BC); found in Telloh, ancient city of Girsu. The history of Sumer spans through the 5th to 3rd millennia BCE in southern Mesopotamia, and is taken to include the prehistoric Ubaid and Uruk periods.

Sumer, site of the earliest known civilization, located in the southernmost part of Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in the area that later became Babylonia and is now southern Iraq, from around Baghdad to the Persian Gulf. …

Sumer (or Šumer) was one of the early civilizations of the Ancient Near East, located in the southern part of Mesopotamia (southeastern Iraq) from the time of the earliest records in the mid-fourth millennium B.C.E. until the rise of Babylonia in the late third millennium B.C.E. The term "Sumerian" applies to all speakers of the Sumerian language.

2020年11月10日 · Sumer was humanity's first great civilization. Even in today’s society you can still find traces of Sumerian inventions in agriculture, language, mathematics, religion and astronomy.

2017年12月7日 · The Sumerian language is the oldest linguistic record. It first appeared in archaeological records around 3100 B.C. and dominated Mesopotamia for the next thousand years. It was mostly replaced by ...

2011年4月28日 · Sumer was the southernmost region of ancient Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq and Kuwait) which is generally considered the cradle of civilization. The name comes from Akkadian, the language of the north of Mesopotamia, and means “land of the civilized kings.”

Sumerian or Sumerians may refer to: Sumer, an ancient civilization Sumerian language; Sumerian art; Sumerian architecture; Sumerian literature; Cuneiform script, used in Sumerian writing; Sumerian Records, an American record label based in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles

2025年3月8日 · The Sumerian king list has long been the greatest focus of interest. This is a literary composition , dating from Old Babylonian times, that describes kingship ( nam-lugal in Sumerian) in Mesopotamia from primeval times to the end of the 1st dynasty of Isin .