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Early Civilization in Mesopotamia

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From the Tablets of Sumer

Twenty-five Firsts in Man's Recorded History. By Dr. Samuel Noah Kramer. Pp. xxv + 293 (40 plates). (Indian Hills, Colorado: Falcon's Wing Press, 1956.) 5 dollars.

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