Title : The Story Begins in Sumer - Kramer Samuel-Noah - book

Summary :

More than thirty years ago, the author of this book, a scholar of international renown, revealed to the general public the Sumerian civilization, born in Mesopotamia, the south of present-day Iraq, some 5,000 years ago. The Greek miracle had a precedent. As early as the third millennium BC, the Sumerians had invented writing, founded the first city-states, formulated the first codes (the laws), given their first literary expression to Myth and Epic, with a lyricism that foreshadows the most beautiful texts of the Old Testament. For once, the tireless linguists had preceded the archaeologists and suggested the excavations that were to reveal, with the transcription of bricks engraved with cuneiform characters, to the astonished 20th century that History begins in Sumer.

• EAN : 9782080812988
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