Sumer


History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Recorded History
The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer
Sumerian Mythology
The Harps that Once...: Sumerian Poetry in Translation
The Kesh Temple Hymn
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The Instructions of Sh...
 
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Shuruppak
Inanna (Sumerians, #1)
The Literature of Ancient Sumer
The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion
A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000-323 BC
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics)
Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others
The Sumerian World (Routledge Worlds)
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Iran and Iraq, Ancient and Modern
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The Epic of Gilgamesh by UnknownInanna by Emily H.  WilsonThe Sorceress by Michael  ScottMyths from Mesopotamia by AnonymousGilgamesh the King by Robert Silverberg
Books Inspired by Gilgamesh
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Soroosh Shahrivar
“ She was known as the girl with the Sumerian blue eyes. ”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

Harriet Crawford
“ 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 con ...more ”
― Harriet Crawford, Sumer and the Sumerians

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