The Sumerians : Lost Civilizations
by
Paul Collins
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Lost Civilizations
ISBN-10
1836392656
ISBN-13
9781836392651
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Imprint
Reaktion Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 1st, 2026
Print length
216 Pages
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The loss, discovery and reinvention of the world’s earliest civilization, the Sumerians
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 inventions no lesser 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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