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Nippur was the religious heart of Sumer, home to the Ekur temple of Enlil. It was never a political capital, but kings sought the god’s blessing on their rule here.
Excavations have yielded tens of thousands of cuneiform tablets, including much of the Sumerian literature known today.
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