Sumer The Scene is Set: Ubaid The Sumerians Eridu to Uruk      From Horticulture to Agriculture Wealth, Status and War      The Goddess in Transition Nammu: The Sumerian Great Mother Transcendent to Anthropomorphic The Underworld: Ereshkigal All photos, maps and other images can be clicked on to take you to the site where we found the image. If you own the copyright to any such image and do not want us to publicise it for you in this way, please contact the webmaster and it will be removed.

Sumer: The scene is set - Ubaid Review "The Scene is Set: Ubaid". Marsh Arabs Image credit: Nathan Bauman. These images of a Marsh Arab floating village of reed houses are from a web site called "Scribol". The site includes a map showing the destruction of the marsh.Visit the site. ..."I lived in the Marshes of Southern Iraq from the end of 1951 until June 1958...I spent these years in the Marshes because I enjoyed being there...Soon the Marshes will probably be drained; when this happens, a way of life that has lasted for thousands of years will disappear." The Marsh Arabs, Wilfred Thesiger,Penguin Classic. 2008 (originally published 1964)

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