Author: Harriet Crawford Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136219110 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 936
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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 Including material hitherto unpublished from recent excavations, the articles are organised thematically using evidence from archaeology, texts and the natural sciences.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: Samuel Noah Kramer Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226452328 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 386
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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. "There are few scholars in the world qualified to write such a book, and certainly Kramer is one of them. . . . One of the most valuable features of this book is the quantity of texts and fragments which are published for the first time in a form available to the general reader. For the layman the book provides a readable and up-to-date introduction to a most fascinating culture. For the specialist it presents a synthesis with which he may not agree but from which he will nonetheless derive stimulation."—American Journal of Archaeology "An uncontested authority on the civilization of Sumer, Professor Kramer writes with grace and urbanity."—Library Journal
Author: Paul Collins Publisher: Reaktion Books ISBN: 178914423X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 215
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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: Hourly History Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: 9781720228035 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 50
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The Sumerians The Sumerians settled in the area known as Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, around five thousand years ago. They produced many fundamental changes to the way in which human societies developed
Author: Leonard Woolley Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 9780393002928 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 228
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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 ISBN: 9780814321218 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 260
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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.
Author: Jeremy A. Black Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780199296330 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 444
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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: Jane Shuter Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library ISBN: 9781432913311 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 40
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What is a ziggurat? How were the Sumerians riled? Why did the Sumerian civilization disappear? This book answers these questions and more. Learn what Sumerians wore, what they ate, how they traveled from place to place, and find out how we know about them today.
Author: Harriet Crawford
Author: Samuel Noah Kramer
Author: Paul Collins
Author: Harriet E. W. Crawford
Author: Hourly History
Author: SAMUEL NOAH KRAMER
Author: Leonard Woolley
Author: Samuel Noah Kramer
Author: Jeremy A. Black
Author: Jane Shuter