This is the first episode of a two-part series on the origin of jokes and humor. The story appears in podcast feeds under the title, "Jokes, Part I: Sumer Funny, Sumer Not." Listen to part two here.
A scribe who does not know Sumerian, what kind of scribe is he? The motto of this text is actually a quotation from a proverb collection and highlights the importance of the knowledge of Sumerian for ...
This is the first episode of a two-part series on the origin of jokes and humor. Listen to part two here. This episode originally aired on August 5, 2022. In the late 1800s, archeologists in Iraq ...