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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 — 119,090 ratings — published -2000
Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,286 ratings — published 2010
Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,770 ratings — published 1989
Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,482 ratings — published 2023
The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.04 — 988 ratings — published 1963
There Are Rivers in the Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.36 — 70,403 ratings — published 2024
A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000-323 BC (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.99 — 904 ratings — published 2003
Enuma Elish: The Seven Tablets of the History of Creation (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,719 ratings — published -1800
Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.40 — 792 ratings — published 2022
Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,754 ratings — published 1983
Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.77 — 477 ratings — published 2001
The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.16 — 242 ratings — published 1976
Ancient Iraq (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.97 — 581 ratings — published 1964
History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Recorded History (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,008 ratings — published 1956
City of the Plague God (Adventures of Sik Aziz, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,681 ratings — published 2021
The Literature of Ancient Sumer (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.17 — 76 ratings — published 2004
Gilgamesh the King (The Gilgamesh Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.15 — 924 ratings — published 1992
The Assyrian (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,513 ratings — published 1987
Inanna (Sumerians, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,305 ratings — published 2023
Ancient Mesopotamia: Life in the Cradle of Civilization (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 11 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.18 — 606 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 4.14 — 222 ratings — published 1992
Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.78 — 130 ratings — published 1964
Mesopotamia: Writing, Reasoning, and the Gods (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.15 — 117 ratings — published 1987
The Code of Hammurabi (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.51 — 1,355 ratings — published -1780
Babylonia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.08 — 14,371 ratings — published 2024
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 3.96 — 975 ratings — published 2025
Persians: The Age of the Great Kings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,941 ratings — published 2022
Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World's First Author (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.37 — 319 ratings — published
The Sumerian World (Routledge Worlds)
by (shelved 7 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.25 — 52 ratings — published 2012
The Epic of Atrahasis (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 7 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.78 — 186 ratings — published -1800
The Ancient Near East: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.90 — 805 ratings — published 2013
The Last Quest of Gilgamesh (The Gilgamesh Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 7 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.21 — 486 ratings — published 1995
The Revenge of Ishtar (The Gilgamesh Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.18 — 468 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
Cuneiform (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.28 — 377 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 — 660 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 4.25 — 142 ratings — published 2025
Gilgamesh (Sumerians, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.32 — 720 ratings — published 2024
Babylonians (Peoples of the Past)
by (shelved 5 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.92 — 156 ratings — published 1962
Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart: Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 4.21 — 387 ratings — published -2270
The Exaltation of Inanna (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.70 — 231 ratings — published -2250
Civilizations of Ancient Iraq (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.94 — 94 ratings — published 2009
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mesopotamia)
avg rating 3.74 — 12,790 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
“My first-year mentor Leslie taught me that the hurrieder we go, the behinder we get.”
― Healing Wisdom for a Wounded World: My Life-Changing Journey Through a Shamanic School: Book 1
― Healing Wisdom for a Wounded World: My Life-Changing Journey Through a Shamanic School: Book 1
“In the ancient Armenian texts, which include the book 'Merkhavat,' there are references to the 'Sarmoung Society.' This society is described as a well-known occult school that according to tradition, dates from 2,500 B.C.E. The school is said to have fared in Mesopotamia up until the sixth or seventh century, C.E. Attributed to the school were many great occult mysteries.”
― The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
― The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis












