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| 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 | : 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 | : Time-Life Books |
| Publisher | : Time Life Medical |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780809498871 |
Surveys what is known about the ancient Babylonian civilization, looks at ruins and artifacts, and describes the work of archaeologists in the region
| 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 | : 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 | : Samuel Noah Kramer |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 424 |
| Release | : 1981 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Kramer ranked among the world's foremost Sumerologists. . . . The book will interest both the scholar and the general educated reader.--Religious Studies Bulletin
| 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 | : 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 | : 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 | : Samuel Noah Kramer |
| Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 1988 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780814321218 |
Samuel Noah Kramer is the leading authority on the interpretation and reading of civilization's oldest literature. His life and life's work are so thoroughly intertwined that his autobiography is also the story of the recovery of the language and literature of the Sumerians. From young Talmudist to the patriarch of Sumerology, Kramer recountshis long and distinguished career. Writing for the non-specialist, he paints a panoramic view of Sumerian literature and provides thumbnail sketches of the individuals with whom he collaborated.
