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Sumer

Sumer (pronounced "Shoomer"), Biblical Shi-nar, is the oldest known civilization in the world. The people who arrived in the plain between the Tigris and Euphrates over 5,000 years ago handed down to us the art of writing, the wheel, and the foundation of many of our myths and legends.

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