Valentine's Day is past and we are pretty sure you are over it, but…we just found something interesting and want to share.

Did you know that the oldest known love poem is over 4,000 years old?  In the late 1800's at a Sumerian archaeological site, a number of terracotta tablets were found. The table with the poem was labeled “Instanbul 2461” and put in a storage bin at the Instanbul Museum in Turkey where it sat until 1951.  It was uncovered and translated by scholar Samuel Noah Kramer.  It is now known as “The Love Song for Shu-sin”.  

Read more about it and read the text of the poem here.

Before the the Love Song for Shu-sin, the oldest love poem was considered to be the Song of Solomon in the Bible.

While we're talking love poems, you might be interested in the 10 Greatest Love Poems Ever Written as selected by The Society of Classical Poets.  (In case you were wondering, the number 1 is by Williams Shakespeare (of course) and is Sonnet 116.)