Ur, Mesopotamia – A remarkable Sumerian poem, known to modern scholars as Shulgi and Ninlil’s Barge, offers a vivid window into the religious devotion and sophisticated statecraft of the Ur III Period (c. 2112 – c. 2004 BCE). Dated to the influential reign of Shulgi of Ur (2094 – circa 2046 BCE), this ancient literary […]