Henceforward the culture and art of the west was Babylonian,--Semitic Babylonian, however, and no longer Sumerian Babylonian as in the days of Lugal-zaggi-si.

Sargon was a patron of literature as well as a warrior.

Standard works on astronomy and astrology and the science of omens were compiled for the great library he established at Akkad, where numerous scribes were kept constantly at work.

Sumerian books were brought from the cities of the south and translated into Semitic; commentaries were written on the older literature of the country, and dictionaries and grammars compiled.

It was now that that mixed language arose, or at least was admitted into the literary dialect, which made Babylonian so much resemble modern English.