From the Tablets of Sumer: Twenty-Five Firsts in Man's Recorded History

by Samuel Noah Kramer

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Canonical title: From the Tablets of Sumer: Twenty-Five Firsts in Man's Recorded History
Important places: Sumeria; Mesopotamia
Original language: English

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Genres: Nonfiction, History, Anthropology, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 935.4 — History & geography History of ancient world (to ca. 499) Mesopotamia to 637 and Iranian Plateau to 637 Babylonia
LCC: DS72 .K7 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Asia History of Asia Iraq (Assyria, Babylonia, Mesopotamia) History

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by Samuel Noah Kramer

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