The history of humankind begins with the invention of writing more than five thousand years ago in Mesopotamia and Egypt. Prehistory encompasses the knowledge of the preceding time, where no written records exist, but other forms of evidence do, such as burial sites and cave paintings, which today reveal the prominent role of women in early art and in hominization itself.

The time has come to ask ourselves, where were women in history?

The first written work of a literary nature is by a Sumerian woman, a high priestess, as well as a princess and poet, Enheduanna. It is a poem to her lunar goddess, Inanna, in which she asks for protection during the siege of the city of Lugalanne. However, for a long time, the great contribution of women to culture and history has been hidden or misrepresented.