The tablets were discovered in the Sumerian site of Girsu, called Tello today. Settled around 4500 B.C.E. in modern-day Iraq, Sumer is the world’s oldest known civilization. During the third ...

Most of the area now falls in modern-day Iraq. Cities were built along the ... Archaeologists have found artefacts that tell us about Ancient Sumer life, rulers and beliefs. The Epic of Gilgamesh ...

2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic language which is now extinct. This tablet has writing on both sides ...

Settled around 4500 B.C.E. in modern-day Iraq, Sumer is the world’s oldest ... the tablets “record all aspects of Sumerian life, and above all they name real people, their names, their jobs.” ...