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| Author | : Jeremy A. Black |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 444 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 9780199296330 |
Sumerian is the oldest written language of ancient Iraq, first written down some 5,000 years ago. Its literature, encompassing narrative myths, lyrical hymns, proverbs and love poetry, provides a stimulating insight into the world's first urban civilization. This is a comprehensive collection.
| Author | : Samuel Noah Kramer |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 2010-09-17 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0226452328 |
“A readable and up-to-date introduction to a most fascinating culture” from a world-renowned Sumerian scholar (American Journal of Archaeology). The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second millenniums B.C. This book is an unparalleled compendium of what is known about them. Professor Kramer communicates his enthusiasm for his subject as he outlines the history of the Sumerian civilization and describes their cities, religion, literature, education, scientific achievements, social structure, and psychology. Finally, he considers the legacy of Sumer to the ancient and modern world. “An uncontested authority on the civilization of Sumer, Professor Kramer writes with grace and urbanity.” —Library Journal
| Author | : Paul Collins |
| Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
| Total Pages | : 215 |
| Release | : 2021-03-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 178914423X |
The Sumerians are widely believed to have created the world’s earliest civilization on the fertile floodplains of southern Iraq from about 3500 to 2000 BCE. They have been credited with the invention of nothing less than cities, writing, and the wheel, and therefore hold an ancient mirror to our own urban, literate world. But is this picture correct? Paul Collins reveals how the idea of a Sumerian people was assembled from the archaeological and textual evidence uncovered in Iraq and Syria over the last one hundred fifty years. Reconstructed through the biases of those who unearthed them, the Sumerians were never simply lost and found, but reinvented a number of times, both in antiquity and in the more recent past.
| Author | : Fernando Báez |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 392 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Examines the many reasons and motivations for the destruction of books throughout history, citing specific acts from the smashing of ancient Sumerian tablets to the looting of libraries in post-war Iraq.
| Author | : Paul Collins |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2020-11-12 |
| Genre | : Cuneiform inscriptions, Sumerian |
| ISBN | : 9781910807361 |
The story of one of the first and most important civilisations in history, and the first to invent writing.
| Author | : Bendt Alster |
| Publisher | : Eisenbrauns |
| Total Pages | : 512 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : |
Discussion of the nature of Sumerian wisdom literature and complete editions of many Sumerian wisdom texts, including the Instructions of Shuruppak, Instructions of Ur-Ninurta, Counsels of Wisdom, Sumerian fables, Nothing Is of Value, Ballade of Early Rulers, and more. This unusual book describes the Sumerian literature and many of their proverbs featured in speeches of wise men of that time.
| Author | : Leonard Woolley |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 1965 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780393002928 |
Describes the civilization of the Sumerians, who inhabited the land which today is Iraq, in the beginning of the fourth millennium B.C.
| Author | : Harriet E. W. Crawford |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 2004-09-16 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521533386 |
This work reviews the social and technological developments in Mesopotamia from 3800 to 2000 BC.
| Author | : Harriet Crawford |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 936 |
| Release | : 2013-08-29 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1136219110 |
The Sumerian World explores the archaeology, history and art of southern Mesopotamia and its relationships with its neighbours from c.3,000 - 2,000BC. Including material hitherto unpublished from recent excavations, the articles are organised thematically using evidence from archaeology, texts and the natural sciences. This broad treatment will also make the volume of interest to students looking for comparative data in allied subjects such as ancient literature and early religions. Providing an authoritative, comprehensive and up to date overview of the Sumerian period written by some of the best qualified scholars in the field, The Sumerian World will satisfy students, researchers, academics, and the knowledgeable layperson wishing to understand the world of southern Mesopotamia in the third millennium.
| Author | : Joshua Bowen |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 255 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : Sumerian language |
| ISBN | : 9781734358605 |
