The ‘Ur’ in URWERK’s name refers to the ancient Sumerian city of Ur where over 6,000 years ago people used giant sundials to measure time; the ‘werk’ refers to the German noun ‘das Werk’ meaning ‘work’ or ‘creation’.
While there he translated classical poetry, such as the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh, into French.
In 1989 the company produced a limited edition of beer (known in Sumerian as sikaru) which they named Ninkasi after the Sumerian goddess of beer.
According to his point of view that is necessary to take it into consideration at the time of the analysis of the ancient Hungarian words the Sumerian and Hattian–Hurrian literary monuments.
The Sumerian King List omits any mention of Lagash, even though it was clearly a major power during the period covered by the list.
A "classical" period usually corresponds to a flowering of literature following an "archaic" period, such as Classical Latin succeeding Old Latin, Classical Sumerian succeeding Archaic Sumerian, Classical Sanskrit succeeding Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Persian succeeding Old Persian.
Samuel Noah Kramer, a renowned expert in Sumerian history says, "There is some reason to believe that their original home had been in the neighborhood of a city called Aratta, which may have been near the Caspian sea: Sumerian epic poets say something of Aratta, and its people were said to speak the Sumerian language".
It was derived in part from the Sumerian legends of Gilgamesh, with the chief villain of the game being named Namtar.
Dumuzid, the Fisherman, a king of the 1st Dynasty of Uruk named on the Sumerian king list;
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Dumuzid the Shepherd, an antediluvian king according to Sumerian mythology;
Two Elamite dynasties said to have exercised brief control over parts of Sumer in very early times include Awan and Hamazi; and likewise, several of the stronger Sumerian rulers, such as Eannatum of Lagash and Lugal-anne-mundu of Adab, are recorded as temporarily dominating Elam.
There follows three similar episodes as Enlil leaves the city, speaking to as the keeper of the city gate ("keeper of the holy barrier" or "man of the pure lock"), the man who guards Id-kura; the Sumerian river of the underworld (similar to the river Styx in Greek Mythology) and lastly SI.LU.IGI, the underworld ferryman (similar to Charon).
Although situated in the Diyala Valley north-east of Sumer proper, the city nonetheless belonged securely within the Sumerian cultural milieu.
Mehrdad Bahar opined that the figure of the Haji Firuz is derived from ceremonies and legends connected to the epic of prince Siavash, which are in turn derived from those associated with the Mesopotamian deities of agriculture and flocks, Tammuz (Sumerian Dumuzi).
In the 1965 horror film Dark Intruder Nyogtha is mentioned towards the end, along with Sumerian Goetic demons such as Astaroth and Asmodeus.
The group entered the studio in March 2010 to begin writing and recording their sophomore studio album called The End of the World Party with Sumerian Records and 3-D producer Cameron Mizell.
On December 7, 2010, I, The Breather released its 1st studio album "These Are My Sins" on the Sumerian Records label.
In 2001 Ammondt recorded a new album, Three Songs in Sumerian, featuring Blue Suede Shoes, verses from Gilgamesh, and a translation of the Finnish tango Satumaa sung in ancient Sumerian.
Finnish scholars Asko and Simo Parpola identify Meluhha (earlier variant Me-lah-ha) from earlier Sumerian documents with Dravidian mel akam "high abode" or "high country".
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Magan is usually identified with Egypt in later Assyrian texts; but the Sumerian localization of Magan was probably Oman.
Naram-Sin quickly destroyed and dispersed the Sumerian rebels and also went on a vast campaign of conquest, taking his armies to Lebanon, Syria and Israel, and then to Egypt.
When Saddam Hussein embarked on a war with Iran he dredged the Shi'i and Mandaean inhabited marshes of Southern Iraq, causing damage to the ancient culture of the Mandaean people who have lived amongst the reeds since Sumerian times.
It was first published by Yale University Press in the United States and deals with commentary and translations of twelve cuneiform, Sumerian myths and texts discovered by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology excavations at the temple library at Nippur.
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Miscellaneous Babylonian Inscriptions is a 1918, Sumerian linguistics and mythology book written by George Aaron Barton.
The Australian author Jackie French used the Palette, and recent research into Sumerian trade routes, to create her historical novel Pharaoh (2007).
Her temple, the Esagila (from Sumerian E (temple) + SAG (head) + ILA (lofty)) was located on the KUR of Eridu, although she also had a temple at Kish.
Mayhem Festival Headliner for the Sumerian Records Stage (June 29, 2013 - August 4, 2013)
In terms of overall size, some of Cucuteni-Trypillian sites, such as Talianki (with a population of 15,000 and covering an area of some 450 hectares – 1100 acres) in the Uman district of Ukraine, are as large as (or perhaps even larger than) the more famous city-states of Sumer in the Fertile Crescent, and these Eastern European settlements predate the Sumerian cities by more than half of a millennium.
On January 20, 2010, Stick to Your Guns announced that they would enter the studio within the following week to begin recording their album The Hope Division for a June 1, 2010 release date through Sumerian Records.
During the middle of the third millennium BCE, Sumerian deities became more anthropocentric and were "...nature gods transformed into city gods."
The Chinese, Sumerian and Akkadian cuneiform, and Maya scripts are largely syllabic in nature, although based on logograms.
The similarity of dingir and tengri was noted as early as 1862 (i.e. during the early phase of the decipherment of the Sumerian language, before even the term "Sumerian" had been coined to refer to it), by George Rawlinson in his The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World (p. 78).
The collection consists of sumerian tablets, Egyptian papyri (Papyrus 88), an original diploma of Matilde di Canossa (9 January 1106), a group of 30 manuscripts, an incunabulum, 60 books printed in the 16th-century and a collection of 18th and 19th-century editions of literature and historiography, the first edition of "The Betrothed".