Nippur The History and Legacy of One of the Ancient Sumerians' Oldest Cities (Audible Audio Edition) Charles River Editors Kenneth Ray Books
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In southern Iraq, a crushing silence hangs over the dunes. For nearly 5000 years, the sands of the Iraqi desert have held the remains of the oldest known civilization the Sumerians. When American archaeologists discovered a collection of cuneiform tablets in Iraq in the late 19th century, they were confronted with a language and a people who were at the time only scarcely known to even the most knowledgeable scholars of ancient Mesopotamia. The exploits and achievements of other Mesopotamian peoples, such as the Assyrians and Babylonians, were already known to a large segment of the population through the Old Testament and the nascent field of Near Eastern studies had unraveled the enigma of the Akkadian language that was widely used throughout the region in ancient times, but the discovery of the Sumerian tablets brought to light the existence of the Sumerian culture, which was the oldest of all the Mesopotamian cultures.
Although the Sumerians continue to get second or even third billing compared to the Babylonians and Assyrians, perhaps because they never built an empire as great as the Assyrians or established a city as enduring and great as Babylon, they were the people who provided the template of civilization that all later Mesopotamians built upon. The Sumerians are credited with being the first people to invent writing, libraries, cities, and schools in Mesopotamia, and many would argue that they were the first people to create and do those things anywhere in world.
For a people so great it is unfortunate that their accomplishments and contributions, not only to Mesopotamian civilization but to civilization in general, largely go unnoticed by the majority of the public.
Nippur The History and Legacy of One of the Ancient Sumerians' Oldest Cities (Audible Audio Edition) Charles River Editors Kenneth Ray Books
Yielding over 30,000 tablets f the history of the city’s ruse and fall, yet much of the city is still not excavated. It had a scribes’ school and many temples. There even a reference to Yahweh. Fascinating history.Product details
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Nippur The History and Legacy of One of the Ancient Sumerians' Oldest Cities (Audible Audio Edition) Charles River Editors Kenneth Ray Books Reviews
Charles River has done a number of books about ancient cities, and this one is as good as the others. It explains Nippur's religious significance, ancient accounts about it, the turbulent fighting for it, etc.
Yielding over 30,000 tablets f the history of the city’s ruse and fall, yet much of the city is still not excavated. It had a scribes’ school and many temples. There even a reference to Yahweh. Fascinating history.
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