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Sacred Texts: Ancient Near East

Sumerian Mythology: Preface

Ancient MesopotamiaCuneiform WritingSamuel Noah KramerSumerian Mythology

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The Sumerians were a non-Semitic, non-Indo-European people who flourished in southern Babylonia from the beginning of the fourth to the end of the third millennium B. C. During this long stretch of time the Sumerians, whose racial and linguistic affiliations are still unclassifiable, represented the dominant cultural group of the entire Near East.

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