Imagine what a day in the life of a citizen of Uruk must have been like. Waking up in the morning, looking outside and seeing, once again, that the scorpion-men of the East Mountain had opened the gates and Shamash the sun god had been pulled across the sky in his chariot (University 1). Walking towards the Eanna temple, hoping that one of the priests would be available to interpret a dream you had during the night, imagine the awe you would feel seeing the sun glinting on the walls of the temple like copper. Carrying your offering, you would go through the open area towards the cella, admiring the interior walls along the way and smelling the burning incense (Kovacs 1:12).
In the Epic of Gilgamesh, the oldest-known work of literature found to date, we can find a surprising amount of information about what life in Sumer was like.
