"More than 4,000 years ago in the ancient city of Ur, present day southern Iraq, a woman named Enheduanna pressed her name into wet clay and put her stamp on her own work. She wrote hymns of incredible personal and political depth, described her own exile and humiliation, called on the goddess Inanna to restore her and left a postscript that reads: The compiler of this tablet is Enheduanna. Something noone had ever seen before."
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Enheduanna: the forgotten woman who signed her work 1,500 years before Homer - Futura-Sciences
When we ask who the first writer in history was, most of us picture Homer, the blind Greek poet whose epics sit at the foundation of Western literature. More than 4,000 years ago in the ancient city of Ur, present day southern Iraq, a woman named Enheduanna pressed her name…
Futura Team and Pia Gray
