Clear view Quote by Geoffrey Sampson

“Thus, Sumerian writing came to consist of a complex mixture of three types of signs: logograms, referring to a whole word or name; phonetic…

— Jared Diamond

“It didn’t disturb the Sumerians that their script was ill-suited for writing poetry. They didn’t invent it in order to copy spoken language, but…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“while the examples of their art and the representations of their form and features, which were also afforded by the diggings at Telloh, proved…

— Leonard William King

“M. Halévy started a theory to the effect that Sumerian was not a language at all, in the proper sense of the term, but…

— Leonard William King

“And one bite, and I’m their slave?” – Sundown “Exactly.” – Sin “And who thought this would be a good idea?” – Sundown “Don’t…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Every decade archaeologists discover another few forgotten scripts. Some of them might prove to be even older than the Sumerian scratches in clay. But…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“the creation tales of Genesis are edited and abbreviated versions of much more detailed Mesopotamian texts, which were in turn versions of an original…

— Zecharia Sitchin

“Rife's key realization was that there's no difference between modern culture and Sumerian. We have a huge workforce that is illiterate or alliterate and…

— Neal Stephenson

“As the number of inhabitants grew, so did the amount of information required to coordinate their affairs. Between the years 3500 BC and 3000…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Between the years 3500 BC and 3000 BC, some unknown Sumerian geniuses invented a system for storing and processing information outside their brains, one…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The Sumerian language was originally that of the hunter and fisher peoples, who lived in the marshland and the Eastern Arabia littoral region, and…

— Margarethe Uepermann

“Sumerian substratum is obvious not only in the use of a cuneiform system of writing, but also in the weakness of Laryngeal and Pharyngeal…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos