Download or read book History Begins at Sumer written by Samuel Noah Kramer and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1959 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History Begins at Sumer is the classic account of the achievements of the Sumerians, who lived in what is now southern Iraq during the third millennium B.C. They were the developers of the cuneiform system of writing, perhaps their greatest contribution to civilization, which allowed laws and literature to be recorded for the first time.