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Feb 22, 2023 · A priestess named Enheduanna claimed authorship to poetry and other texts—sometimes in first-person—more than a millennium before Homer. By: Becky Little Updated: June 16, 2023 | Original ...
- Becky Little
Oct 25, 2022 · She was the first author to be named in all recorded history: the Mesopotamian poet, princess, and priestess Enheduanna. Surprised? "When people ask who is the first author, they never guess ...
- Kushim. Year Written: c.3400 to 3000 BCE. Country of Origin: Ancient Sumer (modern day southern Iraq) [ Writing System: pre-Cuneiform (Uruk III) archaic Sumerian.
- Gal-Sal and Slaves. Year Written: c.3200 to 3100 BCE. Country of Origin: Ancient Sumer (modern day southern Iraq) [ Writing System: pre-Cuneiform archaic Sumerian.
- Iry-Hor. Year Written: c.3200 BCE. Country of Origin: Abydos, Egypt (modern day El-Bayana, Sohag Governate, Egypt) [ Writing System: Egyptian Hieroglyphics.
- Ka. Year Written: c.3200 BCE. Country of Origin: Abydos, Egypt (modern day El-Bayana, Sohag Governate, Egypt) [ Writing System: Egyptian Hieroglyphics. photo source: Wikimedia Commons.
Signs of human individuality first began to appear over 30,000 years ago, when artists began to leave their ‘signatures’ in the forms of handprints on cave walls. But we cannot name these artists. Nor can we name the hunters they depict or the people who lead them. The late fourth millennium BC saw the beginnings of writing.
Aug 19, 2015 · Editor’s Note: This post has updated to clarify a sentence about the gender of the ancient writer. “It’s me!” they’d say, and they’d leave a sign. Leave it on the cave wall. Maybe as a ...
- Robert Krulwich
Feb 1, 2024 · The first person to ever write their name, historians suspect, did so as part of his job. His name might have been “Kushim,” inscribed at the bottom of a Sumerian clay tablet around 5,000 years ago. Alternatively, Kushim could have been the man's title or the name of his office or a larger institution.
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Aug 20, 2015 · The name of someone who was definitely a woman was first written around 3200 BCE. Neithhotep was the wife of Namer, pharaoh of the 1st Dynasty in ancient Egypt. Narmer and Neithhotep probably united the kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt into a single powerhouse civilization.
