{"product_id":"the-sumerians-paul-collins-9781836392651","title":"The Sumerians: Lost Civilizations","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Collins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1836392656\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781836392651\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Reaktion Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/12\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.43w x 0.80d","brand":"Paul Collins","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48520644067583,"sku":"9781836392651","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_649a0068-1f07-4191-a2d5-ac8116608bd9.jpg?v=1778742462","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-sumerians-paul-collins-9781836392651","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}