Enheduanna: History's First Author

04/21/25 • 8 min

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Over 4,000 years ago, the high priestess Enheduanna put pen to clay and wrote the Exaltation of Inanna, making her the earliest known named author in world history.

Sources

"Documents that changed the way we live" by Joseph Janes

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enheduanna

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Over 4,000 years ago, the high priestess Enheduanna put pen to clay and wrote the Exaltation of Inanna, making her the earliest known named author in world history.

Sources

"Documents that changed the way we live" by Joseph Janes

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enheduanna

Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Disk_of_Enheduanna.JPG

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