Sumer


History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Recorded History
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character
The Kesh Temple Hymn
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Sumerian Mythology
Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer
Inanna (Sumerians, #1)
The Harps that Once...: Sumerian Poetry in Translation
A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000-323 BC
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics)
The Ancient Near East, Volume 1: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures
Sumer and the Sumerians
Snow Crash
Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart: Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna
The Epic of Gilgamesh by AnonymousMyths from Mesopotamia by AnonymousGilgamesh the King by Robert SilverbergGilgamesh by Unknown .Gilgamesh by Michael       Schmidt
Gilgamesh
37 books — 4 voters
The Epic of Gilgamesh by AnonymousInanna by Emily H.  WilsonThe Sorceress by Michael  ScottMyths from Mesopotamia by AnonymousGilgamesh the King by Robert Silverberg
Books Inspired by Gilgamesh
89 books — 12 voters

Samuel Noah Kramer
Incredible as it may seem, however, this pinpoint historian, this Toynbee in reverse, has something of unusual interest (an "ace in the hole," as it were) to offer to the general reader. The Sumerologist, more than most other scholars and specialists, is in a position to satisfy man's universal quest for origins — for "firsts" in the history of civilization. ...more
Samuel Noah Kramer, History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Recorded History

Samuel Noah Kramer
Si d'aventure, tel se prend à douter de la fraternité des hommes et de l'humanité commune à tous les peuples et à toutes les races, qu'il parcoure leurs adages et leurs préceptes : il se rassurera. ...more
Samuel Noah Kramer, La historia empieza en Sumer

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