Ancient Mesopotamia: Life in the Cradle of Civilization Suggested Reading

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Ancient Mesopotamia: Life in the Cradle of Civilization
Ancient Mesopotamia: Life in the Cradle of Civilization 4.18 avg rating — 589 ratings
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Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts
Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts 4.12 avg rating — 493 ratings
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh
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Cuneiform
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Babylonia: A Very Short Introduction
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Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Illustrated Dictionary
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Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
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The Archaeology of Syria: From Complex Hunter-Gatherers to Early Urban Societies (c.16,000–300 BC) (Cambridge World Archaeology)
The Archaeology of Syria: From Complex Hunter-Gatherers to Early Urban Societies (c.16,000–300 BC) (Cambridge World Archaeology) 4.62 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Neolithic Transition and The Genetics of Populations In Europe
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The Natufian Culture in the Levant
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The Leopard's Tale: Revealing the Mysteries of Çatalhöyük
The Leopard's Tale: Revealing the Mysteries of Çatalhöyük 4.08 avg rating — 166 ratings
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Encyclopedia of Prehistory: Volume 8: South and Southwest Asia
Encyclopedia of Prehistory: Volume 8: South and Southwest Asia 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Art of Mesopotamia
Art of Mesopotamia 4.36 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Mesopotamia Before History
Mesopotamia Before History 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Interpreting the Late Neolithic of Upper Mesopotamia
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The Early History of the Ancient Near East, 9000-2000 B.C.
The Early History of the Ancient Near East, 9000-2000 B.C. 3.65 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Uruk World System: The Dynamics of Expansion of Early Mesopotamian Civilization
The Uruk World System: The Dynamics of Expansion of Early Mesopotamian Civilization 3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization: The Evolution of an Urban Landscape
Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization: The Evolution of an Urban Landscape 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings
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First Impressions: Cylinder Seals in the Ancient Near East
First Impressions: Cylinder Seals in the Ancient Near East 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Sumer and the Sumerians
Sumer and the Sumerians 3.53 avg rating — 101 ratings
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The Invention of Cuneiform: Writing in Sumer
The Invention of Cuneiform: Writing in Sumer 3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Uruk Mesopotamia & Its Neighbors
Uruk Mesopotamia & Its Neighbors 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Ebla to Damascus: Art and Archaeology of Ancient Syria
Ebla to Damascus: Art and Archaeology of Ancient Syria 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)
Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)
by: Joan Aruz
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Reconstructing History from Ancient Inscriptions: The Lagash-Umma Border Conflict: 2
Reconstructing History from Ancient Inscriptions: The Lagash-Umma Border Conflict: 2 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Oldest Cuisine in the World: Cooking in Mesopotamia
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Ur of the Chaldees: A Revised and Updated Edition of Sir Leonard Woolley's Excavations at Ur
Ur of the Chaldees: A Revised and Updated Edition of Sir Leonard Woolley's Excavations at Ur 4.15 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia
Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia 3.88 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Hands on the Past: Pioneer Archaeologists Tell Their Own Story
Hands on the Past: Pioneer Archaeologists Tell Their Own Story 3.78 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Age of Agade: Inventing Empire in Ancient Mesopotamia
The Age of Agade: Inventing Empire in Ancient Mesopotamia 4.42 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Representations of Political Power: Case Histories from Times of Change and Dissolving Order in the Ancient Near East
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The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character
The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character 4.05 avg rating — 946 ratings
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Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia
Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 87 ratings
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An Introduction to Ancient Mesopotamian Religion
An Introduction to Ancient Mesopotamian Religion 3.79 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Dumu-E2-Dub-Ba-A: Studies in Honor of Åke W. Sjöberg
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A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (2 Volumes)
A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (2 Volumes) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Current Issues and the Study of the Ancient Near East (Publications of the Association of Ancient Historians, No. 8)
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State Formation and State Decline in the Near and Middle East
State Formation and State Decline in the Near and Middle East 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Correspondence of the Kings of Ur: An Epistolary History of an Ancient Mesopotamian Kingdom
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Not Only History: Proceedings of the Conference in Honor of Mario Liverani Held in Sapienza–Università di Roma, Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità, 20–21 April 2009
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Archaic Bookkeeping: Early Writing and Techniques of Economic Administration in the Ancient Near East
Archaic Bookkeeping: Early Writing and Techniques of Economic Administration in the Ancient Near East 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Life in the Ancient Near East, 3100-332 B.C.E.
Life in the Ancient Near East, 3100-332 B.C.E. 3.51 avg rating — 63 ratings
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The Sumerian World
The Sumerian World 4.24 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Assyria and Beyond: Studies Presented to Mogens Trolle Larsen
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The old Assyrian city-state and its colonies
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Anatolia's Prologue, Kültepe Kanesh Karum, Assyrians in Istanbul
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A Year of Vengeance: Time, Narrative, and the Old Assyrian Trade (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER), 17,1)
A Year of Vengeance: Time, Narrative, and the Old Assyrian Trade (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER), 17,1) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Aspects of Old Assyrian Trade and Its Terminology
Aspects of Old Assyrian Trade and Its Terminology
by: Veenhof
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Democracy's Ancient Ancestors: Mari and Early Collective Governance
Democracy's Ancient Ancestors: Mari and Early Collective Governance 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Letters to the King of Mari: A New Translation, with Historical Introduction, Notes, and Commentary
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Everyday Life in Ancient Mesopotamia
Everyday Life in Ancient Mesopotamia 3.82 avg rating — 66 ratings
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From the Mari Archives: An Anthology of Old Babylonian Letters
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Hammurabi of Babylon
Hammurabi of Babylon 4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Year-names of the First Dynasty of Babylon: The Year-names Reconstructed and Critically Annotated in the Light of Their Exemplars
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King Hammurabi of Babylon: A Biography
King Hammurabi of Babylon: A Biography 3.77 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Writing, Law, and Kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia
Writing, Law, and Kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Ancient Sippar: A Demographic Study of an Old-Babylonian City (1894-1595 BC)
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Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor
Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor 3.73 avg rating — 52 ratings
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A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law (2 Vols): Volumes 1 and 2 (Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section 1; The Near and Middle East)
A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law (2 Vols): Volumes 1 and 2 (Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section 1; The Near and Middle East) 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Kingdom of the Hittites
The Kingdom of the Hittites 4.18 avg rating — 179 ratings
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Constituent, Confederate, and Conquered Space: The Emergence of the Mittani State (Topoi – Berlin Studies of the Ancient World/Topoi – Berliner Studien der Alten Welt Book 17)
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The Foreigner and the Law: Perspectives from the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East (Beihefte Zur Zeitschrift Fur Altorientalische Und Biblische Rechtsgeschichte, 16)
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Cultures and Societies in the Middle Euphrates and Habur Areas in the Second Millennium BC - I: Scribal Education and Scribal Traditions
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The Land of Hana: Kings, Chronology, and Scribal Tradition
The Land of Hana: Kings, Chronology, and Scribal Tradition 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Envisioning the Past Through Memories: How Memory Shaped Ancient Near Eastern Societies
Envisioning the Past Through Memories: How Memory Shaped Ancient Near Eastern Societies 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Letters of the Great Kings of the Ancient Near East
Letters of the Great Kings of the Ancient Near East 3.72 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Role of the Messenger and Message in the Ancient Near East
The Role of the Messenger and Message in the Ancient Near East 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Egypt's Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep III and His World
Egypt's Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep III and His World 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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International Relations in the Ancient Near East
International Relations in the Ancient Near East 4.12 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Amarna Letters
The Amarna Letters 4.09 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Brotherhood of Kings: How International Relations Shaped the Ancient Near East
Brotherhood of Kings: How International Relations Shaped the Ancient Near East 4.52 avg rating — 114 ratings
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The El-Amarna Correspondence (2 Vol. Set): A New Edition of the Cuneiform Letters from the Site of El-Amarna Based on Collations of All Extant Tablets ... Studies: Section 1; The Near and Middle East)
The El-Amarna Correspondence (2 Vol. Set): A New Edition of the Cuneiform Letters from the Site of El-Amarna Based on Collations of All Extant Tablets ... Studies: Section 1; The Near and Middle East) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Diplomacy by Design: Luxury Arts and an "International Style" in the Ancient Near East, 1400-1200 BCE
Diplomacy by Design: Luxury Arts and an "International Style" in the Ancient Near East, 1400-1200 BCE 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Nuzi at Seventy-Five (A Studies on the Civilization and Culture of Nuzi and the Hurrians, 10) (English, French and German Edition)
Nuzi at Seventy-Five (A Studies on the Civilization and Culture of Nuzi and the Hurrians, 10) (English, French and German Edition) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Languages and Cultures in Contact at the Crossroads of Civilizations in the Syro-Mesopotamia Realm
Languages and Cultures in Contact at the Crossroads of Civilizations in the Syro-Mesopotamia Realm 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Ugarit in Retrospect: Fifty Years of Ugarit and Ugaritic
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Hittite Diplomatic Texts
Hittite Diplomatic Texts 3.91 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Die Deuteronomistischen Geschichtswerke: Redaktions- Und Religionsgeschichtliche Perspektiven Zur Deuteronomismus-Diskussion in Tora Und Vorderen Propheten
Die Deuteronomistischen Geschichtswerke: Redaktions- Und Religionsgeschichtliche Perspektiven Zur Deuteronomismus-Diskussion in Tora Und Vorderen Propheten 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Life and Society in the Hittite World
Life and Society in the Hittite World 4.13 avg rating — 99 ratings
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1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed 3.74 avg rating — 11,945 ratings
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The Eastern Mediterranean in the Age of Ramesses II
The Eastern Mediterranean in the Age of Ramesses II 3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The City of Ugarit at Tell Ras Shamra
The City of Ugarit at Tell Ras Shamra 4.12 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Assyrian palace reliefs in the British Museum;
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Art and Empire: Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum
Art and Empire: Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Mass deportations and deportees in the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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Ancient Assyria: A Very Short Introduction
Ancient Assyria: A Very Short Introduction 3.70 avg rating — 186 ratings
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Crossing Boundaries and Linking Horizons: Studies in Honor of Michael C. Astour on His 80th Birthday
Crossing Boundaries and Linking Horizons: Studies in Honor of Michael C. Astour on His 80th Birthday 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Assyrian Rulers of the Third & Second Millennia BC
Assyrian Rulers of the Third & Second Millennia BC 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Conquest of Assyria: Excavations in an Antique Land
The Conquest of Assyria: Excavations in an Antique Land 4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Discoveries In The Ruins Of Nineveh And Babylon
Discoveries In The Ruins Of Nineveh And Babylon 3.85 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Archives and Libraries in the Ancient Near East 1500–300 B.C.
Archives and Libraries in the Ancient Near East 1500–300 B.C. it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Religion and Ideology in Assyria (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER), 6)
Religion and Ideology in Assyria (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER), 6) 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Ancient Libraries
Ancient Libraries 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture
The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture 3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Assyrian Discoveries: An Account of Explorations and Discoveries on the Site on Nineveh, During 1873 and 1874
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Assyrian Palace Sculptures
Assyrian Palace Sculptures 4.22 avg rating — 32 ratings
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The Campaigns of Sargon II, King of Assyria, 721–705 B.C. (Campaigns and Commanders Series Book 55)
The Campaigns of Sargon II, King of Assyria, 721–705 B.C. (Campaigns and Commanders Series Book 55) 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Warfare and Culture in World History
Warfare and Culture in World History 3.69 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Babylonia 689-627 B.C: A political history
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Babylon
Babylon 3.77 avg rating — 120 ratings
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