Word: sumeria
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...used to talking about the Middle East, but geographically, Iraq is part of western Asia,” Winter says. “Ancient Sumeria was the birthplace of mathematics and astronomy in both Asia and Europe. It was of profound importance to polytheistic cultures to the east, in India. That is why we are talking of a great loss to world culture. It’s not just about Abraham...
DIED. T. GEOFFREY BIBBY, 83, British archaeologist who dug up the 4,000-year-old Middle Eastern kingdom of Dilmun, a secret and supposedly mythical island of everlasting life traversed by the epic hero Gilgamesh; near Aarhus, Denmark. Using little more than clay tablets inscribed with the legend of Sumeria, Bibby figured the mysterious city to be on the island of Bahrain, near Saudia Arabia...