{"product_id":"the-sumerians-lost-civilizations-paperback","title":"The Sumerians: Lost Civilizations - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaul Collins\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA nuanced reassessment of the ancient Fertile Crescent civilization that complicates received wisdom by exploring the ever-present politics of archaeology and laying claim to the past.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Collins\u003c\/b\u003e is the Jaleh Hearn Curator for Ancient Near East at the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, specializing in the art and archaeology of Mesopotamia and Iran. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eAssyrian Palace Sculptures\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMountains and Lowlands: Ancient Iran and Mesopotamia\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.58 x 8.52 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 08, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67928220303614,"sku":"9781836392651","price":23.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0826\/8716\/4670\/files\/JekiU371Dn9781836392651.webp?v=1793473375","url":"https:\/\/123learningstore.com\/products\/the-sumerians-lost-civilizations-paperback","provider":"123 Learning Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}