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  1. Karimi, Edith (2016). Mimetische Bildung durch Märchen: Phantasie, Narration, Moral [Mimetic education through Märchen: phantasy, narration, morality]. European Studies in Education (bằng tiếng Đức). 34. Münster: Waxmann Verlag. tr. 110. ISBN 9783830984726. Truy cập ngày 25 tháng 10 năm 2018. Manche Märchen ordnet [August] Nitschke den Jägern und Hirten der letzten Eiszeit zu, andere den Bauern und Fischern im Mesolithikum, wieder andere den Seefahrern der Meglithgesellschaft oder den Helden der Indogermanen. [August Nitschke assigns many fairy-tales to the hunters and herders of the last Ice Age, other ones to the farmers and fisherfolk of the Mesolithic, and still other ones to the seafarers of the megalith cultures or to the heroes of the Indo-European peoples.]Quản lý CS1: ngôn ngữ không rõ (liên kết)
  2. Grimbly, Shona (2000). Encyclopedia of the Ancient World. Taylor & Francis. tr. 216. ISBN 978-1-57958-281-4. The earliest written literature dates from about 2600 BC, when the Sumerians started to write down their long epic poems.
  3. “Why Has No One Ever Heard of the World's First Poet?”. Literary Hub (bằng tiếng Anh). 22 tháng 6 năm 2017. Truy cập ngày 19 tháng 1 năm 2019.
  4. Jones, Mark (2006). Criminals of the Bible: Twenty-Five Case Studies of Biblical Crimes and Outlaws. FaithWalk Publishing. tr. 6. ISBN 978-1-932902-64-8. The Sumerian code of Urukagina was written around 2400 BC.
  5. Stephanie Dalley (biên tập). Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-953836-2.
  6. Eccles, Sir John Carew (1989). Evolution of the Brain: Creation of the Self. Routledge. tr. 115. ISBN 978-0-415-03224-7. The Epic of Gilgamesh, written in Sumer about 2200 BCE.
  7. James P. Allen. Middle Egyptian Literature: Eight Literary Works of the Middle Kingdom. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-08743-9.
  8. Dalley, Stephanie biên tập (2000). “Etana (pp. 189ff.)”. Myths from Mesopotamia. Creation, The Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0199538360; ISBN 9780199538362.