The Sumerians
Their History, Culture, and Character

Until the mid-eighteen hundreds, no one knew of the presence of a place named Sumer in the ancient Mesopotamian (Iran and Iraq) area. Finally, the gradual gathering of information and the incredible deciphering of cuneiform lead archeologists to realize that they had discovered a lost civilization -......more

Samuel Noah Kramer’s 1956 book History Begins at Sumer brought the Sumerians into the popular imagination. It captured the sense that there, between the banks of the Tigris and the Euphrates, ur-civilization took hold, which would spread its ideas, along with its religion, writing, administration, t......more

_The Sumerians_ by Samuel Noah Kramer is a very readable overview of the ancient Sumerians, those ancient, non-Semitic peoples who produced the world's "first high civilization" and were the world's first urban culture. This ancient culture spanned the fifth to the second millennium BC though its sc......more

The discovery of the ancient civilization of Sumeria came about by accident, sometime in the 19th century. Archaeologists were looking for Assyrian ruins and artifacts, driven by what little was hinted at of the people from the Bible. The Sumerians are nowhere in the Bible, or any other existent rel......more

Neredeyse 5000 yıl önceki bir ilkokul öğrencisinin tabletlerini (şimdiki fişlerini diyelim) okumak insana buruk ve düşünceli bir mutluluk veriyor........more