This year I painted, in series, of the Sumerians: our gifted ancestors who settled in Southern Iraq in the mid-fourth millennium B.C.E - and turned a 10,000 square-mile patch of hot, dry, mineral-less earth into a Garden of Eden. Not only did they create our first cities, governments, laws, religious deities, gender and ethical ideals - the Sumerians also invented Cuneiform, the first writing system to record civilization's first histories, myths and epic tales. Please join me in exploring these 5,000-year old Sumerian stories, which still thrive in modern culture.