Sumerian Mythology

The author of Sumerian Mythology Samuel Noah Kramer a key player in the development of the contemporary field of Sumerology wrote the book in 1944. He was the first to put together translate and edit important pieces of Sumerian literature and mythology. From the beginning of the fourth millennium B.C. to the end of the third millennium B.C. the southern Babylonian region was home to the non-Semitic non-Indo-European Sumerians. The Sumerians whose ethnic and linguistic affinities are still unknown represented the dominating cultural group in the entire Near East during this protracted period. The Sumerians were the resourceful and talented people who founded what was likely the earliest advanced civilization in human history.