Ancient Mesopotamia – Don Nardo
Explores the history and culture of Ancient Mesopotamia. Eye-catching photos, fascinating sidebars, and a “”Contributions”” special feature guide readers through the rise and fall of…
Category: Library – Mesopotamia
Sumerian Mythology A Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C – Samuel Noah Kramer
The Sumerians were a non-Semitic, non-Indo-European people who flourished in southern Babylonia from the beginning of the fourth to the end of the third millennium…
The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character -Samuel Noah Kramer
The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was…
Hammurabi of Babylon – Dominique Charpin
Hammurabi was the sixth king of ancient Babylon and also its greatest. Expanding the role and influence of the Babylonian city-state into an imperium that…
The Literature of Ancient Sumer – Jeremy Black, Graham Cunningham, Eleanor Robson
This anthology of Sumerian literature constitutes the most comprehensive collection ever published, and includes examples of most of the different types of composition written in…
Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia – Jeremy Black & Anthony Green
Ancient Mesopotamia was a rich, varied and highly complex culture whose achievements included the invention of writing and the development of sophisticated urban society. This…
