La historia empieza en Sumer

"History begins in Sumer" is a classic of modern historiography, a seminal book that occupies a place on an equal footing with other works that combine amenity and rigor in an incomparable way, such as Gods, tombs and sages, by Ceram, the "History of Rome" by Montanelli or "The Autumn of the Middle Ages" by Huizinga. First published in 1956, this work by Samuel N. Kramer met with explosive success and recognition throughout the world. This edition -corresponding to the third and definitive one, published in 1981 and the last one given to the press by the author- collects 39 first testimonies of written history, since it was not in vain that the Sumerian people were the first to develop, more than forty five centuries ago and in the south of present-day Iraq, a writing system called cuneiform, which is undoubtedly its main contribution to the history of humanity. In this unbeatable illustration of the researcher's "adventure", Kramer puts up, from the testimonies that have accidentally come down to us, a complete and fascinating panorama of the country of Sumer, in ancient Mesopotamia: the first civilization that left a record of its political affairs, of its instruction and its literature, of its philosophy and its ethics, of its laws and its justice, of its agriculture and its medicine, and even of its sentimental and family life.