The Wedge Legend: Sumer as "constructed
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Around 3500 BC to 2000 BC, the Sumerians created the world's oldest civilization on the fertile impact plains of southern Iraq. The Sumerians were the originators of many major inventions such as cities, writing, and the wheel. The ancient world belonging to the Sumerians was like a mirror, shining on our urban life and civilized world today. The question is, are the Sumerians and their world that we imagine in our minds the history that really happened objectively? Paul Collins, the author of this book, reveals how over the past 150 years, scholars from various countries have used various archaeological documents unearthed from Iraq and Syria to construct a set of "knowledge" about the Sumerians. Whether in the past or now, the Sumerians have never been simply "forgotten" by us, just as they have never been simply "discovered". Each "discovery" was simply a reconstruction of the Sumerians by those who tried to "discover" them using the materials at their disposal. From ancient times to the present, this construction has been repeated many times.
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