Chapter 5: The First Sumerian Dictator

write your name in cuneiform: https://www.penn.museum/cgi/cuneiform.php

cuneiform stylus: http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=how_to_write_cuneiform

sumerian entry in monoglot encyclopedia: https://www.omniglot.com/writing/sumerian.htm

how to pronounce ancient sumerian:




The Epic of Gilgamesh in Sumerian:




the Epic of Gilgamesh sung in Sumerian:




history of cuneiform writing:



how to make stylus:





how to write in cuneiform:






ziggurat:





reed houses of Marsh Arabs:












Crash Course The Epic of Gilgamesh (for older kids, parents preview):