Session 4: Sumer
Notes from session 4 can be found here
Informative links that we used in this session:
The rather tragic life of George Smith, autodidact and translator of 'The Flood Tablet'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Smith_(Assyriologist)
The rather tragic life of George Smith, autodidact and translator of 'The Flood Tablet'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Smith_(Assyriologist)
Reconstructions of buildings in Uruk, one of the most ancient city sites in the world
http://www.artefacts-berlin.de/en/animations/
http://www.artefacts-berlin.de/en/animations/
Plenty of information and intelligent comment on Sumerian culture from Jerold Starr, a modern autodidact, who writes the 'Sumerian Shakespeare' website. The whole site is worth reading at your leisure, but this page opens at the Royal Tombs of Ur:
http://sumerianshakespeare.com/117701/117801.html
http://sumerianshakespeare.com/117701/117801.html