"Sumerian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... however, alike owed their origin to a race which we will term Sumerian. Its members spoke agglutinative dialects, and the primitive civilization of Babylonia was their creation. They were the founders of its great cities and temples, the inventors of the pictorial system of writing out of which the cuneiform characters subsequently developed, the instructors in culture ...
— Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs • Rev. A. H. Sayce |
