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Sumer Books
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History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Recorded History (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as sumer)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,036 ratings — published 1956
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as sumer)
avg rating 3.76 — 121,416 ratings — published -1800
The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as sumer)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,012 ratings — published 1963
The Kesh Temple Hymn (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as sumer)
avg rating 2.97 — 75 ratings — published -2600
The Instructions of Shuruppak (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 4 times as sumer)
avg rating 3.52 — 132 ratings — published -2600
Sumerian Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sumer)
avg rating 3.91 — 672 ratings — published 1944
Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sumer)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,780 ratings — published 1983
Inanna (Sumerians, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as sumer)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,535 ratings — published 2023
The Harps that Once...: Sumerian Poetry in Translation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sumer)
avg rating 4.25 — 105 ratings — published 1987
A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000-323 BC (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sumer)
avg rating 4.00 — 925 ratings — published 2003
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics)
by (shelved 2 times as sumer)
avg rating 3.81 — 422 ratings — published
The Ancient Near East, Volume 1: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sumer)
avg rating 3.88 — 209 ratings — published 1958
Sumer and the Sumerians (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sumer)
avg rating 3.52 — 109 ratings — published 1991
Snow Crash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sumer)
avg rating 4.01 — 300,653 ratings — published 1992
Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart: Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sumer)
avg rating 4.23 — 404 ratings — published -2270
The World's Oldest Literature: Studies in Sumerian Belles-Lettres (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, 35)
by (shelved 2 times as sumer)
avg rating 4.25 — 4 ratings — published 2009
Sumerians: A History From Beginning to End (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as sumer)
avg rating 3.79 — 838 ratings — published 2016
The Literature of Ancient Sumer (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sumer)
avg rating 4.17 — 75 ratings — published 2004
It's Not Summer Without You (Summer, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as sumer)
avg rating 3.74 — 744,447 ratings — published 2010
Enmerkar and The Lord of Aratta (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as sumer)
avg rating 3.50 — 58 ratings — published -2100
Lament for Ur (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as sumer)
avg rating 3.50 — 34 ratings — published -2000
The Last Quest of Gilgamesh (The Gilgamesh Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as sumer)
avg rating 4.21 — 488 ratings — published 1995
Gilgamesh the King (The Gilgamesh Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as sumer)
avg rating 4.15 — 931 ratings — published 1992
Himnos Sumerios (Spanish Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as sumer)
avg rating 3.62 — 8 ratings — published 2000
The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sumer)
avg rating 4.16 — 242 ratings — published 1976
Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sumer)
avg rating 3.78 — 489 ratings — published 2001
Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sumer)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,382 ratings — published 2010
The Sumerians (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sumer)
avg rating 3.78 — 176 ratings — published 1928
The Mary-el Tarot by Marie White (28-Apr-2012) Paperback
by (shelved 1 time as sumer)
avg rating 4.79 — 28 ratings — published
Living in Ancient Mesopotamia (Living in the Ancient World)
by (shelved 1 time as sumer)
avg rating 4.00 — 14 ratings — published 2007
Uruk: A Novel of the First City (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as sumer)
avg rating 4.38 — 42 ratings — published
The Empire of the Dead (The Godsblood Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 1 time as sumer)
avg rating 3.90 — 536 ratings — published
Gilgamesh the King (Gilgamesh, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as sumer)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,051 ratings — published 1984
Like Mayflies in a Stream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sumer)
avg rating 4.07 — 67 ratings — published 2006
Ninshubar (Sumerians, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as sumer)
avg rating 4.34 — 438 ratings — published 2025
Gilgamesh (Sumerians, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as sumer)
avg rating 4.31 — 841 ratings — published 2024
The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic: Introduction, Critical Edition and Cuneiform Texts (2 Volumes)
by (shelved 1 time as sumer)
avg rating 4.06 — 36 ratings — published
Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sumer)
avg rating 4.32 — 22 ratings — published
Dark Priestess (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as sumer)
avg rating 3.44 — 36 ratings — published 1977
The Valley of the Gods (The Godsblood Trilogy #3)
by (shelved 1 time as sumer)
avg rating 4.08 — 187 ratings — published
Gilgamesh: A Graphic Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sumer)
avg rating 3.50 — 103 ratings — published 2011
Trial of Kings (The Godsblood Trilogy #2)
by (shelved 1 time as sumer)
avg rating 4.19 — 281 ratings — published
The First Ghosts: Most Ancient of Legacies (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as sumer)
avg rating 4.00 — 509 ratings — published
The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sumer)
avg rating 4.01 — 973 ratings — published 2014
Ur of the Chaldees: A Revised and Updated Edition of Sir Leonard Woolley's Excavations at Ur (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sumer)
avg rating 4.10 — 79 ratings — published 1954
Conflict of Empires (Eskkar Saga, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as sumer)
avg rating 4.28 — 642 ratings — published 2010
The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sumer)
avg rating 3.68 — 71 ratings — published 1954
“Knowledge of writing was as restricted in ancient Sumer as the ability to understand the intricacies of the stock market is today; it was a tool for managing wealth, for proving ownership.”
― The Literature of Ancient Sumer
― The Literature of Ancient Sumer
“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 concealed within its several stages was an art treasure for each of the guests. Then and there, as the Director of the Expedition, I opened the excavations, and from the ruins of the huge cake I rescued and distributed its buried treasures - antiquities fresh from Tiffany's. Finally the host proposed a toast to the expedition, but it happened by some chance that no glass was at my plate. Imagine my consternation when the guests were raising their glasses and were expressing wishes for my success, and I could not respond! Did it portend failure? Was it destined that success be denied me?”
― Sumer and the Sumerians
― Sumer and the Sumerians
