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The sun was originally a plain circle (Here is a picture of a plain circle)and became(a picture with four trangiles,and the third with certain square).
太陽最初是一個平面的圓圈，后來變為。
If we were using the Sumerian script today we would make an(here is a picture of a shape)look like(and here is a picture of a more stylist shape).
如果我們現在仍然使用蘇美爾人的寫法；
This system of writing down our ideas looks rather complicated,
一條船看起來就會是這種記錄思想的文字系統看上去相當復雜，
but for more than thirty centuries it was used by the Sumerians and the Babylonians and the Assyrians and the Persians and all the different races which forced their way into the fertile valley.
可在3000多年的時間里，蘇美爾人、亞述人、巴比倫人、波斯人以及所有那些曾進占兩河之間富饒土地的種族，無一例外地使用過這種文字。
The story of Mesopotamia is one of endless warfare and conquest.
美索不達米亞的故事交織著連綿不斷的征戰與殺伐。
First the Sumerians came from the North.
最早，蘇美爾人從北部來到這里，
They were a white People who had lived in the mountains.
他們是住在山區的白種人，
They had been accustomed to worship their Gods on the tops of hills.
慣于在山頂之上祭祖他們的眾神。
After they had entered the plain they constructed artificial little hills on top of which they built their altars.
進入平原地區后，他們開始堆造人工的山丘，并在山丘頂上修建祭壇。
They did not know how to build stairs and they therefore surrounded their towers with sloping galleries.
他們不會建造樓梯，因此用環繞高塔的傾斜長廊代之。
Our engineers have borrowed this idea, as you may see in our big railroad stations where ascending galleries lead from one floor to another.
現代的工程師借用了這個創意，正如我們今天的大火車站，由上升的回廊與樓層之間連接起來的。
We may have borrowed other ideas from the Sumerians but we do not know it.
我們可能還借用過蘇美爾人的其它創意，只是不自知而已。
The Sumerians were entirely absorbed by those races that entered the fertile valley at a later date.
后來。蘇美爾人被占領兩河流域的其他種族同化，再也找不到蹤跡，
