Sumerians

But when a Mesopotamian people called the Sumerians finally did scratch out a few bookkeeping symbols on clay tablets 5,000 years ago, they unknowingly started a whole new era in history we call, well … history.

Archive 2008-02-01 Jan 2008

These inventors, called Sumerians by some and Akkadians by others, and

The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Morris Jastrow 1891

The greatest change in the history of the Near East and indeed the world came with a people called the Sumerians in southern Mesopotamia, between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers.

Jihad Watch 2009

The Sumerians were the first group that everyone can agree is worthy of being called a

American Chronicle 2008

The Sumerians were the first to invent over 100 of the original ideas or the first's for any and all modern cultures we now have on earth.

American Chronicle 2008

This double method of writing words arises from the circumstance that the cuneiform syllabary is of non-Semitic origin, the system being derived from the non-Semitic settlers of the Euphrates valley, commonly termed Sumerians (or

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

Cuneiform, which involved making coded markings with a sharp tool, or “stylus,” was eventually used by Sumerians and others in their region to record language.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

Cuneiform, which involved making coded markings with a sharp tool, or “stylus,” was eventually used by Sumerians and others in their region to record language.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

To the non-Semitic Sumerians it connoted "babbling" onomatopoeically.

Rabbi Samuel April: Compromise Is Made Of Mutual Concessions Rabbi Samuel April 2011

To the non-Semitic Sumerians it connoted "babbling" onomatopoeically.

Rabbi Samuel April: Compromise Is Made Of Mutual Concessions Rabbi Samuel April 2011