Mesopotamia


The Epic of Gilgamesh
Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others
Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire
The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character
There Are Rivers in the Sky
A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000-323 BC
Enuma Elish: The Seven Tablets of the History of Creation
Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East
Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer
Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City
The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion
Ancient Iraq
History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Recorded History
City of the Plague God (Adventures of Sik Aziz, #1)
Graham Hancock
Another point of interest about the Tiahuanaco [in Bolivia] monoliths is that their garments from the waist down are patterned in the form of fish scales. Here, too, is a parallel to the Apkallus--the bearded, "fish-garbed figures" who brought high civilization to Mesopotamia [...]. Nor is it as though bearded figures are missing from the repertoire of Tiahuanaco. Two have survived, and one on the pillar in the semi-subterranean temple has been identified since time immemorial with the great civ ...more
Graham Hancock, Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilization

In those days the world teemed, the people multiplied, the world bellowed like a wild bull, and the great god was aroused by the clamor. Enlil heard the clamor and he said to the gods in council, “The uproar of mankind is intolerable and sleep is no longer possible by reason of the babel.” So the gods agreed to exterminate mankind.
Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

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