of the Flood, and supposed author of the Instructions of Shuruppak". The earliest excavated levels at Shuruppak date to the Jemdet Nasr period about 3000...

of Ur. c. 2600–2500 BC: The Instructions of Shuruppak, the earliest known literary texts, are created in Adab, Shuruppak and Abu Salabikh. 2570 BC: Reigns...

of ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). A Sumerian clay tablet found in Shuruppak near Baghdad and dated to c. 2500 BC described the earliest division algorithm...

flood hinted at by that name in the Old Babylonian Version of "Instructions of Shuruppak" are only developments during that Old Babylonian Period, when...

written on clay tablets as early as 2600 BCE. Along with the Instructions of Shuruppak, it is the oldest surviving literature in the world. Fragments...

Sumerian Instructions of Shuruppak (3rd millennium BCE) warn "The reed-beds are ..., they can hide (?) slander". (Instructions of Shuruppak, lines 92–93)...

Larsa, Ur, Uruk, Nippur, Lagash, Eridu, Kish, Adab, Eshnunna, Akshak, Shuruppak, Bad-tibira, Sippar, and Girsu, coalescing them into one kingdom, ruled...

Machiavelli, although this was not the most typical example. Instructions of Shuruppak (Early 3rd millennium BC) Ptahhotep, The Maxims of Ptahhotep (2375-2350BC)...

Nikkal Inscriptions at Tell Abu Salabikh Instructions of Shuruppak, attributed to the historically debatable Shuruppak Kesh Temple Hymn Mesopotamian City Laments...

surviving literature: Sumerian texts from Abu Salabikh, including the Instructions of Shuruppak and the Kesh temple hymn. 2600 BC: Mature Harappan phase of the...