Enheduana achieved a kind of immortality her words extended well beyond her death. That’s what lies at the heart of this week’s episode of “Cosmos,” appropriately called “The Immortals.”įive thousand years ago, in ancient Sumeria (what is now Iraq), an Akkadian princess and high priestess named Enheduana composed what many historians believe are the first signed poems, preserved on inscribed clay tablets, ensuring that she is one of the few women in early history whose name is known to us. ![]() It’s what makes our short human lives so precious - and what drives so many to seek out ways to cheat death and live on. ![]() Everyone has had to grapple, eventually, with the stark realization that he or she will one day die.
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