Mesopotamia

This guide contains links and bibliographic references for Ancient Mesopotamia and the Near East.

Recommended Reading:

Ancient Mesopotamia by Susan Pollock 1999

Ancient Mesopotamia (Looking Back) by Mavis Pilbeam & John Malam 1999

Household and State in Upper Mesopotamia: Specialized Economy and the Social Uses of Goods in an Early Complex Society by Patricia Wattenmaker (Editor) 1998

The Legacy of Mesopotamia by Stephanie Dalley (Editor) 1998

Mesopotamia (Cultures of the Past) by Pamela F. Service 1998

Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others by Stephanie Dalley (Translator) 1998

Science in Ancient Mesopotamia by Carol Moss 1998

Ur III Period: (2112-2004 Bc) (Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Early Periods , Vol 3/2) by Douglas Frayne 1998

Links:

  1. Akkadian Language (Babylonian and Assyrian Cuneiform Texts): Akkadian is a great cultural language of world history. These pages are about the cuneiform writing system on clay tablets, the language, the grammar.
  2. Chicago Assyrian Dictionary Project: "The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, initiated in 1921 by James Henry Breasted, is compiling a comprehensive dictionary of the various dialects of Akkadian, the earliest known Semitic language that was recorded on cuneiform texts that date from c. 2400 B.C. to A.D. 100 which were recovered from archaeological excavations of ancient Near Eastern sites."
  3. Chicago Hittite Dictionary Project: "The Hittite language is the earliest preserved member of the Indo-European family of languages. It was written on clay tablets in central Asia Minor over a five hundred year span (c. 1650-1180 B.C.). The vast majority of Hittite tablets were excavated from the ruins of the ancient Hittite capital Hattusa located near the modern Turkish town of Boghazköy about 210 kilometers east of Ankara."
  4. Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature: "The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature is in preparation at the University of Oxford. Its aim is to make accessible, via the World Wide Web, over 400 literary works composed in the Sumerian language in ancient Mesopotamia during the late third and early second millennia BC."
  5. Mesopotamia (Ur): A reconstruction of the ancient city of Ur, established around 2100 B.C. as the capital of the Mesopotamian Civilization, which arose about 3500 B.C.