The ancient Mesopotamians not only created schools, but saw them as fundamental to their progress as a people.
The Legends of Letters | Scribe Schools of Ancient Mesopotamia
The Literary Legacy of Ashurbanipal | A Great King Who Collected Books
During and throughout the course of his long reign, Ashurbanipal utilised the resources at his disposal to construct the Library of Ashurbanipal: a collection of texts and documents of various different genres.
The Exaltation of Innana | Interview with Dr. Louise Pryke
"Enheduanna is indeed the world’s first individually identified author. As well as being a priestess, she was also a princess as the daughter of Sargon of Akkad (‘Sargon the Great’). Ishtar was worshipped with songs of praise, festivals, and libations."
History of the Written Word: the scribes of medieval Europe and ancient Mesopotamia
In the beginning, there was only nature. We lived alongside her laws and her ways. With the annals of time, humans created civilisation. Without the written word, civilisation wouldn't exist. And it all began with the scribes - the very first wordsmiths who etched their words so they would never be forgotten or lost.