The Sumerians
Subtitle: Their History, Culture, and Character (Phoenix Books)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: February 15, 1971
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780226452388
Subjects: Middle & Near Eastern archaeology; World history: BCE to c 500 CE; Ancient - General; Essays & Travelogues; General; Travel / Essays & Travelogues; Sociology; Sumerians
First sentence: Sumer, the land which came to be known in classical times as Babylonia, consists of the lower half of Mesopotamia, roughly identical with modern Iraq from north of Baghdad to the Persian Gulf.