Samuel Noah Kramer

Leser anzeigen, worin der Verfasser, einer der hervorragendsten Vertreter der zahlenmäßig kleinen Gruppe der Sumerologen, das Allgemeingültige der sumerischen und der auf ihr aufbauenden babylonischen Kultur sieht: In ihr sind, seiner Meinung nach, zum ersten Male auf der Welt Gedanken gedacht...

PREFACE The year 1956 saw the pubhcation of my book From the Tablets of Sumer,'^since revised, reprinted, and translated into numerous languages under the title history Begins at Sumer. It consisted of twenty-odd disparate essays united by a common theme—"firsts" in man's recorded history and...

j [^U^'J'j Q ^ story told in the following pages is of buried treasure in cities of long ago. The treasure is real, as a glance at the illustrations will show: gold, silver, exquisitely carved ivories, gems cut in carnelian, serpentine, lapis lazuli. And yet that seems the least of it. The...