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Hamurabi is a text-based strategy video game of land and resource management. It was first developed under the name King of Sumeria or The Sumer Game by Doug Dyment in 1968 at Digital Equipment Corporation as a computer game for fellow employee Richard Merrill 's newly invented FOCAL programming language. The game consists of ten rounds wherein ...
Ziusudra (Old Babylonian Akkadian: π£ππ€πΊ, romanized: αΉ’íusudrá [αΉ£iβ-uβ-sud-raβ], Neo-Assyrian Akkadian: π£π€π, romanized: αΉ’ísudda, [1] Ancient Greek: ΞΞ―σουθρος, romanized: Xísouthros) of Shuruppak (c. 2900 BC) is listed in the WB-62 Sumerian King List recension as the last king of Sumer prior to the Great Flood.
In the Epic of Gilgamesh , first recorded in the 17th century BC (i.e. the Old Babylonian Empire), the hero is named Ziusudra, who also appears in the Instructions of Shuruppak as the son of the eponymous Shuruppak, who himself is called the son of Ubara-Tutu. [8] The Sumerian King Lists also make no mention of Atra-Hasis, Utnapishtim, or ...
Eridu Genesis. Eridu Genesis, also called the Sumerian Creation Myth, Sumerian Flood Story and the Sumerian Deluge Myth, [1][2] offers a description of the story surrounding how humanity was created by the gods, how the office of kingship entered human civilization, the circumstances leading to the origins of the first cities, and the global ...
Shuruppak (Sumerian: π’π³ππ Šuruppag KI, SU.KUR.RU ki, "the healing place"), modern Tell Fara, was an ancient Sumerian city situated about 55 kilometres (35 mi) south of Nippur and 30 kilometers north of ancient Uruk on the banks of the Euphrates in Iraq 's Al-QΔdisiyyah Governorate. Shuruppak was dedicated to Ninlil, also called ...
The Instructions of Shuruppak (or, Instructions of Šuruppak[1] son of Ubara-tutu) are a significant example of Sumerian wisdom literature. [2] Wisdom literature, intended to teach proper piety, inculcate virtue, and preserve community standards, was common throughout the ancient Near East. [3] Its incipit sets the text in great antiquity: "In ...
The Gilgamesh flood myth is a flood myth in the Epic of Gilgamesh. It is one of three Mesopotamian Flood Myths alongside the one including in the Eridu Genesis, and an episode from the Atra-Hasis Epic. Many scholars believe that the flood myth was added to Tablet XI in the "standard version" of the Gilgamesh Epic by an editor who used the flood ...
Gilgamesh (/ Λ Ι‘ Ιͺ l Ι‘ Ι m Ι Κ /, [7] / Ι‘ Ιͺ l Λ Ι‘ ΙΛ m Ι Κ /; [8] Akkadian: ππππ¦, romanized: Gilgameš; originally Sumerian: ππππ΅π, romanized: Bilgames) [9] [a] was a hero in ancient Mesopotamian mythology and the protagonist of the Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic poem written in Akkadian during the late 2nd millennium BC.