Who Were the Sumerians?

Podcast: Secrets of the Centuries · Secrets of the Centuries

Opublikowano: 2026-10-25

Originating in southern Mesopotamia roughly six millennia ago, the Sumerians established the world's premier urban civilization by mastering the harsh environment through advanced irrigation systems and communal organization. Despite uncertainties regarding their exact geographical beginnings, these innovative people shaped human history by inventing the wheel, the plow, and a sophisticated cuneiform writing system impressed onto clay tablets. Their society flourished through competing city-states and monumental architecture like ziggurats, while also making foundational contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and law. Although the civilization eventually fractured and succumbed to foreign invasions by groups such as the Elamites and Amorites, successive empires readily...