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Steppingstone Towers. The Sumerians introduced writing, and under their rule the arts flourished. Their temples—dedicated to such gods as to Innin, the goddess of fertility, or to Dumuzi ...

Britannica noted this framework was the most widespread and historically significant writing system. Its first emergence may be traced back to the end of the 4th millennium BCE when the Sumerians, the ...