Sumerians Quotes

“The 30,000 clay tablets written in cuneiform found in Nineveh are the single most important source of knowledge about ancient Mesopotamia and have contributed significantly to our understanding of the almost overlooked pioneering Sumerians and trade during their time.”
― Henry Freeman, Sumerians: A History From Beginning to End

“Thankfully, speculation about the different scripts found in these books at Nineveh opened to the possibility that bilingually written texts could include another real language.”
― Henry Freeman, Sumerians: A History From Beginning to End

“The Sumerians called themselves Sag-giga (the “black-headed” or “bald-headed” ones) and their southern Mesopotamia land Kengi (“civilized land”) or Kengi-Sumer. Sumer is an Akkadian name, which means land of the civilized kings.”
― Henry Freeman, Sumerians: A History From Beginning to End

“have lunch with an ancient Sumerian today, they might be pleasantly surprised to know that we still keep time with their concept of a 24-hour day? All the devices we use to keep time might confuse them, but they’d be sure to appreciate that the system that we inherited from them still divides each hour into sixty minutes and each day into 24 hours. If you drew them a circle, they would know that it was 360 degrees all the way around, because they were the first to divide a circle into 60 degree sections some 4000 years ago.”
― Henry Freeman, Sumerians: A History From Beginning to End