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It's always a little infuriating how slow bodies of discourse are to admit needed changes. In this case, the evidence in favor of Enheduanna seems awfully clear.

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The Struggle to Unearth the World’s First Author

Elizabeth Winkler writes about Enheduanna, a priestess of ancient Mesopotamia, and an upcoming exhbition about her at New York’s Morgan Library & Museum titled “She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia.”
Elizabeth Winkler (The New Yorker)
#writing #poetry #archaeology #ur #sumeria
Moritoki Mochizuki
Moritoki Mochizuki  
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Maybe autobiography is in ancient egypt at a same time. But sure - "literature" you have in mesopotamia at some years before than in egypt...
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