Art of the First Cities in the Third Millennium B.C. – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/art-of-the-first-cities-in-the-third-millennium-b-c
The art of the third millennium B.C. reflects not only the extraordinary developments in the cities of the Near Eastern heartland but also their interaction with contemporary civilizations to the east and west.
In their own language, Sumerian, they call themselves sag giga, or “black-headed
