The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character
$19.00 USD
Samuel Noah Kramer's classic work on the world's first known civilization remains the essential introduction to the Sumerians. Based on Kramer's decades of work with cuneiform tablets, this book reveals the Sumerian invention of writing, law, schools, and literature, including the flood narrative that predates the biblical story by over a thousand years.
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Samuel Noah Kramer's classic work on the world's first known civilization remains the essential introduction to the Sumerians. Based on Kramer's decades of work with cuneiform tablets, this book reveals the Sumerian invention of writing, law, schools, and literature, including the flood narrative that predates the biblical story by over a thousand years.
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