The ancient texts frequently described envy as being ... For example, only wealthy classes in ancient Mesopotamia could afford to have scribes write for them, according to the statement.

DATE: ca. 2400 B.C. LANGUAGE: Sumerian. In early 2016, hundreds of media outlets around the world reported that a set of recently deciphered ancient clay tablets revealed that Babylonian ...

if one cross-references his paternity with another ancient text, the Sumerian King List, 3 one finds that Gilgamesh is also listed as the son of the “divine phantom lord of Kulaba.” ...