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The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
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The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
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Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others (Oxford World's Classics)
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Though many of you would already know this, I think it's important that lay readers realize that this book contains direct translations of these tablets--so chunks of text will be missing from the stories. This is not a transliteration, so you're not going to have a series of stories that read... more info

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The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics)
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This is absolutely one of the best translations of Gilgamesh available. Andrew George gives us a taste of what the original versification was like. He also translates all the extant versions and fragments of versions of the epic, and this is important. Not only do the versions augment each other and... more info

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Ancient Iraq: Third Edition (Penguin History)
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Dr. Roux is an authoriry in the field. He lived for several years in the Middle East (Syria, Lebanon and Iraq). Although he is a medical doctor, his interest in ancient history, and the many years he spent in the Middle East provided the learned author with a pragmatic experience and first hand... more info

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Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer
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This translation/interpretation from the cuniform tablets gives an excellent feel for the culture from which this mythic cycle emmerged. The detailed information contextualizing the stories that forms the second half of the book is an invaluable resource for understanding the depth and breadth of... more info

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Ancient Mesopotamia: The Sumerians, Babylonians, And Assyrians (People of the Ancient World)
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This attractive and informative book is part of the People of the Ancient World series of books by Scholastic, Inc. The book explains the culture of ancient Mesopotamia, describing the inhabitants' government, economy, science, and culture. Along the way, the reader is treated to many pictures and... more info

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Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Illustrated Dictionary
from University of Texas Press
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"Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia" (An Illustrated Dictionary) is the best resource on the Gods of the different cultures from that region that exists. Though they call it a dictionary, Jeremy Black and Anthony Green (editors) have put together an encyclopedia of knowledge on the... more info

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Mesopotamia (DK Eyewitness Books)
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This book is great. I use it for homeschooling my children along with The Great Courses DVD course "Between the Rivers: Mesopotamia". It is easy to match each lecture and the page number that it correlates to in this DK book. As usual, the photography is fantastic. We watch one 30 minute lecture and... more info

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Murder in Mesopotamia: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mysteries)
from Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
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I read this book when I was just a boy, barely old enough to speak the word "Mesopotamia." In retrospect, I wonder why American publishers carried over Christie's British title unchanged, when they seemed to have so little faith in us so often that every other title was changed in some way--"Death... more info

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Rituals of War: The Body and Violence in Mesopotamia
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