>No thread on the civilization that started it all Lets have

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Just how gay were Gilgamesh and Enkidu?

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>>3338544
Here is a 3d rendition of Babylon.

http://kadingirra.com/

How true are the claims that Sumerian language descended from a late Paleolithic hybrid language? It's completely isolated and belongs to none of language groups.

>>3338659
I dont guess we will ever know since anything before Sumerian was only spoken and we have no written record to compare it to

>>3338637
Sky-Bull killing, Ishtar trollingly gay.

How is this more interesting than ancient Egypt?

>>3338637
>Those pussy ass beards
>>3338659
I tend to argue for more simple explanations. I just assume Sumerian existed as part of a language family that failed to be attested before its extinction, unless further evidence evinces a more complicated answer.