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I want to learn more about the Middle East, Persia, the Fertile Crescent, Mesopotamia and all that.
Gib books pls.


Also, Middle East thread.

>> No.15895828

>>15895817
Bible

>> No.15895829
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>>15895817
The 2 in this pic are worth the $3 I paid for 'em.

>> No.15895837

Gordon Childe's What Happened In History

>> No.15895858

>>15895829
Who wrote a history of Iran

>> No.15895882

>>15895858
Michael Axworthy

>> No.15895954

>>15895817
- The Sumerians : Their History, Culture, and Character ( Phoenix Books )
- Sumerian Mythology : A Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C.
- Princess, Priestess, Poet : The Sumerian Temple Hymns of Enheduanna ( Classics and the Ancient World )

- A History of the Ancient Near East, Ca. 3000-323 BC ( Blackwell History of the Ancient World )
OR
- The Ancient Near East : History, Society and Economy ( by Mario Liverani )

- The Ancient Near East : An Anthology of Texts and Pictures

- Early Mesopotamia : Society and Economy at the Dawn of History
- Ancient Iraq ( Penguin History ) ( by Georges Roux )

- Myths from Mesopotamia ( Oxford World's Classics )
- Before the Muses : An Anthology of Akkadian Literature

- A History of Babylon, 2200 BC - AD 75 ( Blackwell History of the Ancient World )

- Richard N. Frye : The Golden Age Of Persia
- Richard N. Frye : The Heritage of Persia

- Amélie Kuhrt : The Persian Empire

>> No.15896489

hodgson venture of islam is what you want

>> No.15897763

>>15895954
>- Myths from Mesopotamia ( Oxford World's Classics )
i read this. i recommend if interested in the myths and stories of that era. it has myths from all the ancient eras and civilization there.

>> No.15897883

For me it's The Anabasis of Alexander by Arrian and Herodotus' Histories

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https://4chanlit.fandom.com/wiki/Charts
I’m reading Myths and Legends From Ancient Mesopotamia alongside Ancient Iraq

Why does no one here ever refer to lit wiki charts?
https://4chanlit.fandom.com/wiki/Charts

>> No.15898139

"A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000 - 323 BC" (2nd Edition) by Marc Van De Mieroop
"The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion" by Thorkild Jacobsen
"Before the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature" by Benjamin R. Foster