The story began in Sumer

"The story begins in Sumer" was a book that was published for the first time in 1956 and that ended up having a success and that obtained a total recognition in the whole world; translated very soon to a multitude of languages, today it is a classic of modern histotiography.If you like to know new books like the one that does very little we present snacks with history , surprise yourself now with everything He made this civilization known to us.

The story begins in Sumer

Samuel Noah Kramer author of the book « The story begins in Sumer » became one of the main authorities in Assyrology, history of Sumer and Sumerian language and his book is still a reference for historians as well as curious in general.

As stated in the book «The submerge is the man who knows more about less things» and it is incredible how little by little a whole civilization can be unraveled from clay tablets written in cuneiform .

The story began in Sumer

These tablets were mostly broken but could be rescued thanks to the professors Sumerians and their disciples making numerous copies of each work.Thanks to the contribution of Kramer among other historians such as Edward Chiera or Arno Poebel , Sumer went from being one of the least known civilizations of Antiquity to being one of the best known villages of the Ancient Near East.

Milestones of history with origin in Sumer

We recommend that you read the book but not before giving you a stroke of everything you can discover in the:

The first urban civilization

The story began in Sumer

The greatest contribution is cuneiform writing
The first schools
The first library catalogs
The First Bicameral Parliament (by King Gilgamesh of Uruk) The first scribe (as an anonymous historian)
The first tax cut (thanks to the social reforms of King Urukagina)
The first legislator in history (before even Hammurabi )
The first trial of which there is news (about a woman who was killed by her husband)
The oldest Manual of Medicine (with 12 medical prescriptions)
The First Agricultural Almanac
The Philosophical Principle "Me"
Numerous proverbs and adages
The first animal fables
The First Belief about a Paradise after death
The first sales, what would now be the first motels
The oldest map of Humanity (city of Nippur)
The first known aquarium
Gilgamesh, the first St.George of History
The First Love Song of History
The First champion in the background

If you like ancient history and want to know the relationship of the Sumerian civilization with writing, don't miss Curiosities about the invention of writing: from Iraq to Peru as always in Lifestyle.

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