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Mesopotamia Books
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The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.76 — 121,974 ratings — published -1800
Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,422 ratings — published 2010
Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,836 ratings — published 1989
There Are Rivers in the Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.34 — 94,236 ratings — published 2024
Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,694 ratings — published 2023
The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,019 ratings — published 1963
A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000-323 BC (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.99 — 928 ratings — published 2003
Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.40 — 931 ratings — published 2022
Enuma Elish: The Seven Tablets of the History of Creation (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,800 ratings — published -1800
Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.78 — 491 ratings — published 2001
Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,789 ratings — published 1983
Ancient Iraq (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.98 — 594 ratings — published 1964
The Assyrian (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,545 ratings — published 1987
The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.16 — 243 ratings — published 1976
Gilgamesh the King (The Gilgamesh Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.15 — 933 ratings — published 1992
History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Recorded History (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,043 ratings — published 1956
City of the Plague God (Adventures of Sik Aziz, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,742 ratings — published 2021
Inanna (Sumerians, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,569 ratings — published 2023
The Literature of Ancient Sumer (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.17 — 75 ratings — published 2004
Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Illustrated Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.12 — 224 ratings — published 1992
Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.77 — 133 ratings — published 1964
Ancient Mesopotamia: Life in the Cradle of Civilization (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 11 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.18 — 646 ratings — published
Before the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.43 — 79 ratings — published 1993
Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,658 ratings — published 2025
Mesopotamia: Writing, Reasoning, and the Gods (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.16 — 119 ratings — published 1987
The Code of Hammurabi (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.52 — 1,388 ratings — published -1780
Babylonia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.07 — 17,009 ratings — published 2024
The Epic of Atrahasis (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 8 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.77 — 204 ratings — published -1800
Everyday Life in Ancient Mesopotamia (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.82 — 67 ratings — published 2001
The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.22 — 230 ratings — published 2025
Persians: The Age of the Great Kings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,244 ratings — published 2022
Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World's First Author (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.37 — 368 ratings — published
The Exaltation of Inanna (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.83 — 295 ratings — published -2250
The Sumerian World (Routledge Worlds)
by (shelved 7 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.22 — 54 ratings — published 2012
The Ancient Near East: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.89 — 849 ratings — published 2013
Dawn of Empire (Eskkar Saga, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,690 ratings — published 2006
The Last Quest of Gilgamesh (The Gilgamesh Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 7 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.21 — 490 ratings — published 1995
The Revenge of Ishtar (The Gilgamesh Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.18 — 471 ratings — published 1993
The Ancient Mesopotamian City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.19 — 32 ratings — published 1998
Return to Babylon: Travelers, Archaeologists, and Monuments in Mesopotamia (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.24 — 45 ratings — published 1979
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.75 — 13,603 ratings — published 2014
Mesopotamia: Ancient Art and Architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.31 — 48 ratings — published
Cuneiform (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.27 — 397 ratings — published 2015
The Blood Star (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.48 — 820 ratings — published 1989
Between the Rivers: The History of Ancient Mesopotamia (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 6 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.71 — 323 ratings — published 2013
Gilgamesh the King (Gilgamesh, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,054 ratings — published 1984
King Hammurabi of Babylon: A Biography (Blackwell Ancient Lives)
by (shelved 6 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.78 — 118 ratings — published 2004
Ancient Mesopotamia (Case Studies in Early Societies, Series Number 1)
by (shelved 6 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.72 — 78 ratings — published 1999
Murder in Mesopotamia (Hercule Poirot, #14)
by (shelved 6 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.94 — 72,666 ratings — published 1936
“During the first millennium BCE, even the beer-loving Mesopotamians turned their backs on beer, which was dethroned as the most cultured and civilized of drinks, and the age of wine began.”
― A History of the World in 6 Glasses
― A History of the World in 6 Glasses
“Legends speak of a primeval Pacific homeland called "Hiva" from which the first inhabitants of Easter Island came--a homeland that also fell victim to the "mischief of Uoke's lever" and was "submerged under the sea." What is particularly intriguing about all this, because of its resonance with the Seven Sages--the Apkallu--spoken of in Mesopotamian antediluvian traditions, and with the Seven Sages of the Edfu Building Texts, who sought out new lands in which to recreate the drowned and devastated world of the gods, is that the Seven Sages--"king's sons, all initiated men"--are also said to have been instrumental in the original settlement of Easter Island. Exactly as was the case with the Apkallu, who laid the foundations of all the future temples of Mesopotamia, and with the Edfu Sages who traveled the length and breath of Egypt establishing the sacred mounds on which all future pyramids and temples were to be built, the first task of the Seven Sages from Hiva after their arrival on Easter Island was 'the construction of stone mounds.”
― Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilization
― Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilization
