Samuel Noah Kramer Quotes

Sumer, The Land Which Came To Be Known In Classical Times As Babylonia, Consists Of The Lower Half Of Mesopotamia, Roughly Identical With Modern Iraq From North Of Baghdad To The Persian Gulf. It Has An Area Of Approximately 10,000 Square Miles, Somewhat Larger Than The State Of Massachusetts. Its Climate Is Extremely Hot And Dry, And Its Soil, Left To Itself, Is Arid, Wind-swept, And Unproductive. The Land Is Flat And River-made, And Therefore Has No Minerals Whatever And Almost No Stone. Except For The Huge Reeds In The Marshes,

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