But above all, the Sumerians were a kingdom of sculptors who, in seesawing between realism and abstraction, seem almost modern. A design on a piece of pottery in early Mesopotamian art showing ...

Sumerians were notable for their art and architecture, language (the oldest recorded), developed sciences like medicine and mathematics, as well as their diet — especially what they drank.

He maintains that Menes was at one and the same time the Sumerian emperor in Mesopotamia and the first dynastic king of Egypt, a crown-colony of his world-empire.