Sumer


History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Recorded History
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character
The Kesh Temple Hymn
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The Instructions of Sh...
 
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Shuruppak
Sumerian Mythology
Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer
Inanna (Sumerians, #1)
The Harps that Once...: Sumerian Poetry in Translation
A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000-323 BC
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics)
The Ancient Near East, Volume 1: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures
Sumer and the Sumerians
Snow Crash
Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart: Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna
The Epic of Gilgamesh by AnonymousThe Sorceress by Michael  ScottMyths from Mesopotamia by AnonymousGilgamesh the King by Robert SilverbergGilgamesh II by Jim Starlin
Books Inspired by Gilgamesh
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The Epic of Gilgamesh by AnonymousMyths from Mesopotamia by AnonymousGilgamesh the King by Robert SilverbergGilgamesh by Unknown .Gilgamesh by Michael       Schmidt
Gilgamesh
36 books — 3 voters

Then the flood swept over.
Sumerian King List

Harriet Crawford
One of the most pleasant recollections of those busy days was a Babylonian dinner given by Present Morton to the friends of the expedition. The cards at our plates were written in the language of Nebuchadnezzar; the bread was of the shape of Babylonian bricks; the great tray of ice-cream was the colour of the desert sand over which sweet icy camels bore burdens of other sweet ices; and there was a huge cake, like the Tower of Babel; about it wandered miniature Arabs with miniature picks, and con ...more
Harriet Crawford, Sumer and the Sumerians

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