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Mesopotamia Books
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The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.75 — 119,698 ratings — published -2000
Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,312 ratings — published 2010
Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,777 ratings — published 1989
Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,528 ratings — published 2023
The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.04 — 994 ratings — published 1963
There Are Rivers in the Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.35 — 74,998 ratings — published 2024
A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000-323 BC (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.99 — 907 ratings — published 2003
Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.40 — 821 ratings — published 2022
Enuma Elish: The Seven Tablets of the History of Creation (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,731 ratings — published -1800
Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,758 ratings — published 1983
Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.77 — 478 ratings — published 2001
The Assyrian (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,522 ratings — published 1987
Ancient Iraq (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.97 — 581 ratings — published 1964
History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Recorded History (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,016 ratings — published 1956
The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.16 — 242 ratings — published 1976
City of the Plague God (Adventures of Sik Aziz, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,691 ratings — published 2021
Gilgamesh the King (The Gilgamesh Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.15 — 926 ratings — published 1992
Inanna (Sumerians, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,364 ratings — published 2023
The Literature of Ancient Sumer (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.17 — 76 ratings — published 2004
Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Illustrated Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.13 — 223 ratings — published 1992
Ancient Mesopotamia: Life in the Cradle of Civilization (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 11 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.19 — 613 ratings — published
Before the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.43 — 74 ratings — published 1993
Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.78 — 130 ratings — published 1964
Babylonia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.08 — 14,860 ratings — published 2024
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 3.51 — 1,363 ratings — published -1780
Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,086 ratings — published 2025
Everyday Life in Ancient Mesopotamia (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.82 — 67 ratings — published 2001
Persians: The Age of the Great Kings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,987 ratings — published 2022
Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World's First Author (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.37 — 331 ratings — published
The Sumerian World (Routledge Worlds)
by (shelved 7 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.25 — 53 ratings — published 2012
The Epic of Atrahasis (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 7 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.78 — 189 ratings — published -1800
The Ancient Near East: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.89 — 821 ratings — published 2013
The Last Quest of Gilgamesh (The Gilgamesh Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 7 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.21 — 487 ratings — published 1995
The Revenge of Ishtar (The Gilgamesh Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.18 — 469 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
Gilgamesh (Sumerians, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.30 — 742 ratings — published 2024
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.74 — 12,898 ratings — published 2014
Cuneiform (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.28 — 383 ratings — published 2015
The Blood Star (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.47 — 802 ratings — published 1989
Gilgamesh the King (Gilgamesh, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,033 ratings — published 1984
Dawn of Empire (Eskkar Saga, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,686 ratings — published 2006
King Hammurabi of Babylon: A Biography (Blackwell Ancient Lives)
by (shelved 6 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.78 — 116 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 — 70,780 ratings — published 1936
Sumerian Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.91 — 662 ratings — published 1944
Conflict of Empires (Eskkar Saga, #3)
by (shelved 5 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.28 — 641 ratings — published 2010
The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.22 — 156 ratings — published 2025
“By the fourth millennium BC, the Fertile Crescent was not the only region of coalesced communities; organized agricultural, military, religious, and administrative activity had also begun to appear in the Indus Valley, in what is now Pakistan. Even before written records, there is evidence of trade between these two regions. Archaeologists have discovered lamps and cups in Mesopotamia dating from the late fourth millennium BC and made from conch shells found only in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Oman.”
― A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
― A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
“Searching in an ancient rain-fed lake in northern India, paleoclimatologists using radiocarbon dating have discovered that 4,100 years ago, the summer monsoons began a rapid decline. They did not return to normal for two centuries.
For an unimaginable two hundred years, the Harappan region saw hardly any rain. Around the same time in China, Egypt, and Mesopotamia, the three other earliest-known civilizations also were lost to the dry sands of history.”
― Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
For an unimaginable two hundred years, the Harappan region saw hardly any rain. Around the same time in China, Egypt, and Mesopotamia, the three other earliest-known civilizations also were lost to the dry sands of history.”
― Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
