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History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Recorded History (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 1,058 ratings — published 1956
The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as sumer)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,035 ratings — published 1963
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as sumer)
avg rating 3.76 — 123,514 ratings — published -1800
Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sumer)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,805 ratings — published 1983
Sumerian Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as sumer)
avg rating 3.92 — 687 ratings — published 1944
The Harps that Once...: Sumerian Poetry in Translation (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sumer)
avg rating 4.26 — 109 ratings — published 1987
The Kesh Temple Hymn (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as sumer)
avg rating 3.01 — 77 ratings — published -2600
The Instructions of Shuruppak (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 4 times as sumer)
avg rating 3.51 — 137 ratings — published -2600
Inanna (Sumerians, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as sumer)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,693 ratings — published 2023
The Literature of Ancient Sumer (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sumer)
avg rating 4.18 — 78 ratings — published 2004
The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sumer)
avg rating 4.16 — 244 ratings — published 1976
A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000-323 BC (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sumer)
avg rating 4.00 — 941 ratings — published 2003
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics)
by (shelved 2 times as sumer)
avg rating 3.80 — 488 ratings — published
Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sumer)
avg rating 4.27 — 30 ratings — published
The Sumerian World (Routledge Worlds)
by (shelved 2 times as sumer)
avg rating 4.24 — 55 ratings — published 2012
The Ancient Near East, Volume 1: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sumer)
avg rating 3.89 — 211 ratings — published 1958
Sumer and the Sumerians (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sumer)
avg rating 3.51 — 112 ratings — published 1991
Snow Crash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sumer)
avg rating 4.01 — 302,887 ratings — published 1992
Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart: Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sumer)
avg rating 4.20 — 414 ratings — published -2270
The World's Oldest Literature: Studies in Sumerian Belles-Lettres (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, 35)
by (shelved 2 times as sumer)
avg rating 4.25 — 4 ratings — published 2009
Sumerians: A History From Beginning to End (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as sumer)
avg rating 3.79 — 853 ratings — published 2016
It's Not Summer Without You (Summer, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as sumer)
avg rating 3.73 — 763,796 ratings — published 2010
Enmerkar and The Lord of Aratta (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as sumer)
avg rating 3.52 — 61 ratings — published -2100
Lament for Ur (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as sumer)
avg rating 3.50 — 34 ratings — published -2000
The Last Quest of Gilgamesh (The Gilgamesh Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as sumer)
avg rating 4.21 — 493 ratings — published 1995
Gilgamesh the King (The Gilgamesh Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as sumer)
avg rating 4.15 — 940 ratings — published 1992
Himnos Sumerios (Spanish Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as sumer)
avg rating 3.62 — 8 ratings — published 2000
Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sumer)
avg rating 3.78 — 501 ratings — published 2001
Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sumer)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,491 ratings — published 2010
From the Poetry of Sumer: Creation, Glorification, Adoration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sumer)
avg rating 4.33 — 9 ratings — published 1979
The Sumerians (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sumer)
avg rating 3.79 — 178 ratings — published 1928
Sümer Hayvan Masalları (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as sumer)
avg rating 3.93 — 14 ratings — published 2007
Myths of Enki, the Crafty God (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sumer)
avg rating 4.07 — 59 ratings — published 1989
The Sumerians: Lost Civilizations (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as sumer)
avg rating 3.68 — 59 ratings — published
Records of the Past, Vol. 2: Being English Translations of the Assyrian and Egyptian Monuments (Classic Reprint)
by (shelved 1 time as sumer)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Records of the Past. Being English Translations of the Assyrian and Egyptian Monuments Volume 9 : Assyrian Texts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sumer)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Sacred Marriages: The Divine-Human Sexual Metaphor from Sumer to Early Christianity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sumer)
avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published 2008
Records of the Past, Vol. 5: Being English Translations of the Assyrian and Egyptian Monuments (Classic Reprint)
by (shelved 1 time as sumer)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2015
Vol.1. Illustrated History of the Art, Monuments, Archaeological Sites, Cities, Gods and Goddesses of Phoenicia and Ugarit (Ancient history and Art of the Middle East)
by (shelved 1 time as sumer)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2014
The Mary-el Tarot by Marie White (28-Apr-2012) Paperback
by (shelved 1 time as sumer)
avg rating 4.79 — 28 ratings — published
Living in Ancient Mesopotamia (Living in the Ancient World)
by (shelved 1 time as sumer)
avg rating 4.00 — 14 ratings — published 2007
Uruk: A Novel of the First City (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as sumer)
avg rating 4.16 — 50 ratings — published
The Empire of the Dead (The Godsblood Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 1 time as sumer)
avg rating 3.90 — 539 ratings — published
Gilgamesh the King (Gilgamesh, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as sumer)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,071 ratings — published 1984
Like Mayflies in a Stream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sumer)
avg rating 4.07 — 67 ratings — published 2006
Ninshubar (Sumerians, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as sumer)
avg rating 4.33 — 519 ratings — published 2025
Gilgamesh (Sumerians, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as sumer)
avg rating 4.29 — 920 ratings — published 2024
The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic: Introduction, Critical Edition and Cuneiform Texts (2 Volumes)
by (shelved 1 time as sumer)
avg rating 4.06 — 36 ratings — published
“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.”
― History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Recorded History
― History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Recorded History
“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.”
― La historia empieza en Sumer
― La historia empieza en Sumer
