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Meet Enheduanna: Sumerian princess, priestess, and the world’s first known author

The world’s first known author is widely considered to be Enheduanna, a woman who lived in the 23rd century BCE in ancient ...
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Best of Summer: What makes the world’s first bar joke funny? No one knows.

This is the first episode of a two-part series on the origin of jokes and humor. Listen to part two here. This episode originally aired on August 5, 2022. In the late 1800s, archeologists in Iraq ...
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Biblical parallels from Sumerian literature : handbook on the special exhibit in honor of the American-Jewish tercentenary, 1654-1954 / Text by Samuel N. Kramer, with the ...

I. Biblical parallels from Sumerian literature -- Creation of the universe -- Creation of man -- Paradise -- The earth and its organization -- Man's golden age -- The Cain-Abel motif -- The Flood -- ...
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What makes the world’s first bar joke funny? No one knows.

This is the first episode of a two-part series on the origin of jokes and humor. The story appears in podcast feeds under the title, "Jokes, Part I: Sumer Funny, Sumer Not." Listen to part two here.