Definitions for "Sumer"
Ancient city-state in Mesopotamia which saw the invention of cuneiform writing about 3500 BCE.
The most ancient civilization of Mesopotamia, roughly contemporary with ancient Egypt. A non-Caucasian culture, it was where cuneiform (wedge-shaped) writing on clay tablets was invented. It became the Babylonian culture.
an area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq; site of the Sumerian civilization of city-states that flowered during the third millennium BC
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The golden mountain which the pilgrim-soul comes across in its spiritual journey.