Jim Webster writes
Dean Hoffman wrote in message
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Where is Sumer?

was rather than is.

the home of what was probably the first civilisation, based on the two
rivers of the Tigris and Euphrates, now southern Iraq. The Sumerians
were the ones that the Babylonians copied.
One city name that might ring a bell from sunday school is Ur.

weren't the akkadians even earlier?

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