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In the World of Sumer: An Autobiography

by Samuel Noah Kramer

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Paperback , 253 pages

Published December 31st 1988 by Wayne State University Press (first published February 1986)

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About Samuel Noah Kramer

Samuel Noah Kramer (September 28, 1897 – November 26, 1990) was one of the world's leading Assyriologists and a world renowned expert in Sumerian history and Sumerian language.

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