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The Sumerians - Lost Civilizations (Hardcover): Paul Collins

The Sumerians - Lost Civilizations (Hardcover)

Paul Collins

Series: Lost Civilizations

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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 BC. 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 150 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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Imprint: Reaktion Books
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Lost Civilizations
Release date: March 2021
Authors: Paul Collins
Dimensions: 216 x 138 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 978-1-78914-415-4
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > Middle & Near Eastern archaeology > General
Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
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LSN: 1-78914-415-9
Barcode: 9781789144154

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