Lost Civilizations The Sumerians: Lost Civilizations, (Paperback)
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| Management number | 240816303 | Release Date | 2026/07/16 | List Price | US$7.60 | Model Number | 240816303 | ||
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<p><b>A nuanced reassessment of the ancient Fertile Crescent civilization that complicates received wisdom by exploring the ever-present politics of archaeology and laying claim to the past.</b></p><p>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 BCE. 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 one hundred fifty 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.</p>
- Lost Civilizations The Sumerians: Lost Civilizations, (Paperback)
- Author: Reaktion Books
- ISBN: 9781836392651
- Format: Paperback
- Publication Date: 2026-10-02
- Page Count: 216
| Book format | Paperback |
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| Fiction/nonfiction | Non-Fiction |
| Genre | History |
| Publication date | September, 2026 |
| Pages | 216 |
| Subgenre | Ancient |
| Series title | Lost Civilizations |
| Number in series | 0 |
| Edition | 1 |
| Publisher | Reaktion Books |
| Original languages | English |
| Language | English |
| Edu focus | Social Science |
| Educational level | General |
| Is collectible | N |
| Recording time | 0 min |
| Retail packaging | Single Piece |
| Assembled product dimensions (l x w x h) | 5.43 x 0.80 x 8.50 in |
| Assembled product weight | 1 lb |
| Bisac subject heading | History |
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