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The Sumerians
Paul Collins
其他書名
Lost Civilizations
出版Reaktion Books, 2021-03-22
主題History / GeneralHistory / Ancient / GeneralSocial Science / Archaeology
ISBN178914423X9781789144239
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=tE0gEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.