The Sumerians were one of the world’s oldest known civilizations, emerging in southern Mesopotamia around 3500 BCE 🏺 They developed cuneiform writing, which they used not only to record trade and laws, but also myths, dreams, rituals, diseases, and unusual phenomena ✍️ Their texts describe gods descending from the sky, the creation of humans from clay, and a great flood recorded centuries before the Bible 🌊 The Epic of Gilgamesh explores the search for immortality and humanity’s fear of death,