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Mesopotamia Books
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The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.75 — 118,186 ratings — published -2000
Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,234 ratings — published 2010
Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,749 ratings — published 1989
The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.04 — 978 ratings — published 1963
There Are Rivers in the Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.36 — 63,599 ratings — published 2024
Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,417 ratings — published 2023
A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000-323 BC (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.99 — 898 ratings — published 2003
Enuma Elish: The Seven Tablets of the History of Creation (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,699 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 — 1,747 ratings — published 1983
Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.77 — 472 ratings — published 2001
The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.16 — 238 ratings — published 1976
Ancient Iraq (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.97 — 573 ratings — published 1964
History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Recorded History (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,003 ratings — published 1956
Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.41 — 750 ratings — published 2022
City of the Plague God (Adventures of Sik Aziz, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,657 ratings — published 2021
The Literature of Ancient Sumer (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.16 — 75 ratings — published 2004
Gilgamesh the King (The Gilgamesh Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.15 — 921 ratings — published 1992
The Assyrian (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,506 ratings — published 1987
Ancient Mesopotamia: Life in the Cradle of Civilization (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 11 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.18 — 604 ratings — published
Before the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.42 — 73 ratings — published 1993
Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Illustrated Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.13 — 220 ratings — published 1992
Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.77 — 128 ratings — published 1964
Inanna (Sumerians, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,213 ratings — published 2023
Mesopotamia: Writing, Reasoning, and the Gods (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.15 — 116 ratings — published 1987
The Code of Hammurabi (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.51 — 1,344 ratings — published -1780
Everyday Life in Ancient Mesopotamia (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.82 — 67 ratings — published 2001
Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.99 — 784 ratings — published 2025
Babylonia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.08 — 13,591 ratings — published 2024
Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World's First Author (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.39 — 308 ratings — published
The Sumerian World (Routledge Worlds)
by (shelved 7 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.25 — 51 ratings — published 2012
The Epic of Atrahasis (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 7 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.78 — 179 ratings — published -1800
The Last Quest of Gilgamesh (The Gilgamesh Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 7 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.21 — 483 ratings — published 1995
The Revenge of Ishtar (The Gilgamesh Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.18 — 465 ratings — published 1993
The Ancient Mesopotamian City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.23 — 31 ratings — published 1998
Return to Babylon: Travelers, Archaeologists, and Monuments in Mesopotamia (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.25 — 44 ratings — published 1979
Persians: The Age of the Great Kings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,861 ratings — published 2022
Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart: Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.22 — 384 ratings — published -2270
The Ancient Near East: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.90 — 787 ratings — published 2013
Cuneiform (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.27 — 371 ratings — published 2015
Ancient Mesopotamia (Case Studies in Early Societies, Series Number 1)
by (shelved 6 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.72 — 78 ratings — published 1999
Sumerian Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.92 — 649 ratings — published 1944
The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.24 — 124 ratings — published 2025
Babylonians (Peoples of the Past)
by (shelved 5 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.92 — 155 ratings — published 1962
The Exaltation of Inanna (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.70 — 229 ratings — published -2250
Civilizations of Ancient Iraq (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.95 — 91 ratings — published 2009
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.74 — 12,582 ratings — published 2014
Ambassador's Daughter: A Novel of Ancient Mesopotamia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.58 — 12 ratings — published 2007
Sex and Eroticism in Mesopotamian Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.85 — 39 ratings — published 1994
The Blood Star (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.47 — 793 ratings — published 1989
“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.”
― The Epic of Gilgamesh
― The Epic of Gilgamesh
“Figurines of Apkallus were buried in boxes in the foundation deposits in Mesopotamian buildings in order to avert evil ... The term massare, Watchers, is used of these sets. Likewise the Apkallus were said to have taught antediluvian sciences to humanity and so, too, were the Watchers. As one scholar concludes, however: 'The Jewish authors often inverted the Mesopotamian intellectual traditions with the intention of showing the superiority of their own cultural foundations. [Thus] ... the antediluvian sages, the Mesopotamian Apkallus, were demonised as the 'sons of God' and ... appear as the Watchers ... illegitimate teachers of humankind before the flood.”
― Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilization
― Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilization
