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Babylonians?

Permalink Submitted by Anonymous on November 25, 2010

Just nitpicking here, but wouldn't 3000 B.C. be the Sumerians, not the Babylonians? It's been a while since I took Near Eastern studies, but I'm pretty sure the Babylonians didn't come around until mid third millenium B.C.

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