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Mesopotamia Books
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The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.76 — 121,152 ratings — published -1800
Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,372 ratings — published 2010
Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,818 ratings — published 1989
There Are Rivers in the Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.34 — 87,124 ratings — published 2024
The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,010 ratings — published 1963
Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,633 ratings — published 2023
A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000-323 BC (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.00 — 922 ratings — published 2003
Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.39 — 887 ratings — published 2022
Enuma Elish: The Seven Tablets of the History of Creation (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,782 ratings — published -1800
Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.78 — 489 ratings — published 2001
Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,780 ratings — published 1983
Ancient Iraq (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.98 — 592 ratings — published 1964
The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.16 — 244 ratings — published 1976
The Assyrian (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,540 ratings — published 1987
History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Recorded History (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,037 ratings — published 1956
City of the Plague God (Adventures of Sik Aziz, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,722 ratings — published 2021
Gilgamesh the King (The Gilgamesh Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.15 — 930 ratings — published 1992
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 3.78 — 130 ratings — published 1964
Inanna (Sumerians, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,502 ratings — published 2023
Ancient Mesopotamia: Life in the Cradle of Civilization (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 11 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.18 — 627 ratings — published
Before the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.45 — 76 ratings — published 1993
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 — 1,380 ratings — published -1780
Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,474 ratings — published 2025
Babylonia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.07 — 16,170 ratings — published 2024
The Exaltation of Inanna (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.83 — 287 ratings — published -2250
The Epic of Atrahasis (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 8 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.78 — 198 ratings — published -1800
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 — 2,135 ratings — published 2022
Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World's First Author (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.37 — 354 ratings — published
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 — 840 ratings — published 2013
The Last Quest of Gilgamesh (The Gilgamesh Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 7 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.21 — 488 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
The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.20 — 198 ratings — published 2025
Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart: Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.22 — 401 ratings — published -2270
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.74 — 13,319 ratings — published 2014
Mesopotamia: Ancient Art and Architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.35 — 48 ratings — published
Cuneiform (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.28 — 389 ratings — published 2015
The Blood Star (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.47 — 815 ratings — published 1989
Between the Rivers: The History of Ancient Mesopotamia (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 6 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.71 — 320 ratings — published 2013
Gilgamesh the King (Gilgamesh, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,050 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 — 117 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
“Enkidu, my brother, whom I loved so dearly, who accompanied me through every danger-- the fate of mankind has overwhelmed him. For six days I would not let him be buried, thinking, 'If my grief is violent enough, perhaps he will come back to life again.”
― The Epic of Gilgamesh
― The Epic of Gilgamesh
“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
