Utu-Hegal

Utu-Hegal

male
Utu-hegal was one of the first King of Sumer after centuries of Akkadian and Gutian rule. There are several theories concerning further details of...

Lugal-Anne-Mundu

male
Lugal-Anne-Mundu was the most important king of the city-state Adab in Sumer. According to Sumerian transcriptions, he conquered all of...

Mesilim

male
Mesilim (c. 2500 BC) was "ensi" (king) of the Sumerian city-state Kish. He is one of the first persons in history whose name is recorded in...

Elulu

male
Elulu or Ilulu according to the Sumerian king list was a king of the Akkadian Empire. The dates of his reign are unknown, possibly ending...

Etana

male
Etana was an ancient, legendary Sumerian king of the city of Kish and was, according to the Sumerian king list, one of the kings who reigned after...

Enshakushanna

male
Enshakushanna (or En-Shakansha-Ana, Enukduanna) was a king of Uruk sometime in the later 3rd millennium BC who is named on the Sumerian king list,...

Nanum

male
Nanum or Nanium was a king of the Akkadian Empire who ascended the throne in 2257 B.C.. After the death of the previous ruler of Akkad,...

Gungunum

male
Gungunum (king of Larsa) was an Amorite and the fifth ruler of the Larsa dynasty. He ruled from 1932 BC to 1906 BC. As ruler he conquered Ur,...

Ernest de Sarzec

male
Ernest Choquin de Sarzec (1832-1901) was a French archaeologist, to whom is attributed the discovery of the civilization of ancient Sumer. He was...

Edgar James Banks

male, deceased (1945)
Edgar James Banks (1866 - May 5 1945) was an antiquities enthusiast and entrepreneurial roving archaeologist in the closing days of the Ottoman...