One tentative hypothesis is that these are the ruins of Urshu, a northern city mentioned in some Sumerian texts.

Understanding Sumerian texts today can be problematic even for experts.

Akkadian proper names were first attested in Sumerian texts from ca.

We can read in Sumerian texts how everything happened.

Sargon legend is a Sumerian text purporting to be Sargon's biography.

A Sumerian text from 5000 BC describes a "tooth worm" as the cause of caries.

According to our Sumerian text he reigned in Erech for a hundred years.

In many cases, even the Sumerian text is post-Sumerian.

Carnelian is also mentioned in many Sumerian texts including those to do with trade with Dilmun.

Some of the earliest Sumerian texts spell his name as Bilgames.