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The Sumerians

By Paul Collins

Book information

Publisher
Reaktion Books
Year
2021
ISBN
9781789144154, 9781789144239
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
11 MB (11740888 bytes)
Series
Lost Civilizations
Pages
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Time added
2022-07-06 23:49:18
AncientArchaeologygeneralHistorysocial science

Description

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. **

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