Miguel Civil, a scholar and researcher at the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute, was a leading expert on the Sumerian language, the earliest known written language. “No one has known Sumerian ...

"This volume ... consists of facsimiles of tablets from the Nippur collection of the University ofPennsylvania. Dr. Samuel N. Kramer ... has ... grouped the plates in ...

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Volume 1. An anthology of texts and pictures -- pt. 1. Egyptian myths and tales / John A. Wilson -- pt. 2. Myths and epics from Mesopotamia: A Sumerian myth / S.N. Kramer -- Akkadian myths and epics / ...