I am working on a book on ancient history and would like to learn about scholars from history department from across the globe.Thank you for your help.
I am interested in the Sumerians and currently writing a book about them. I wrote my first book on numerical methods in 1986 published by Holt Rinehart and Winston. Though that, discovered the Sumerians contribution in numerical methods and many other areas. Can you share your insights about this amazing culture? In your opinion, what is most unique about them and their greatest contributions?
A subject I have worked on for years-attempting to make others aware of their extreme importance-far more so than the Greeks, their heirs like all the rest of us.
They structured urban society. Presented us with its very foundation. We have retained it, all its paradigms, its sense of the otherness of nature, typology (a way of viewing reality), the initial construction of humanism, professionals, intellectuals.
I adore its poetry-Gilgamesh, etc, full of ideas.
Dear Stanley - thank you for your eloquent response and hope we can continue the conversation for years to come. Amir
Interesting topic dear Dr Amir, I'm looking forward to answers by dear colleagues.
Good Luck
An interesting topic.
Sometime around 4000 B.C., ancient Sumerian culture emerged on a sun-scorched floodplain along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now southern Iraq. These enigmatic Mesopotamians are best known for inventing cuneiform script—the world’s oldest extant writing system—but they also forged a vibrant religious and literary tradition and made massive leaps forward in government, mathematics, urban planning and agriculture.
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