📚 Mesopotamia

Between the rivers: Sumer, Babylon, Assyria, the first written pages, and law cut into stone.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject mesopotamia in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	They wrote on clay	Edward Chiera	1938	22
	Everyday Life in Ancient Mesopotamia	Jean Bottéro	2001	5
	Iran	Giovanni Curatola	2003	4
	The Sumerians	Samuel Noah Kramer	1963	3
	Symbols of prehistoric Mesopotamia	Beatrice Laura Goff	1963	3
	Life in the Ancient Near East, 3100-332 B.C.E.	Daniel C. Snell	1997	3
	How to Do Things with Tears	Paul Delnero	2020	3
	More sculpture from the Diyala region	Henri Frankfort	1943	2
	Archäologische Forschungen der Max Freiherr von Oppenheim-Stiftung im nördlichen Mesopotamien 1956	Anton Moortgat	1959	2
	L' agronomie de la Mésopotamie antique	Mohammed El Faïz	1995	2
	Mesopotamian magic	I. Tzvi Abusch	1999	2
	The art and architecture of Mesopotamia	Giovanni Curatola	2007	2
	Catalogue des monnaies turcomanes Beni Ortok, Beni Zenguî, Frou' Atabeqyéh et Meliks Eyoubites de Meiyafarikîn	Istanbul, Turkey. Arkeoloji Müzeleri	1894	1
	Catalogue des monnaies turcomanes Beni Ortok, Beni Zenguî, Frou' Atabeqyéh et Meliks Eyoubites de Meiyafarikîn	Istanbul, Turkey. Arkeoloji Müzeleri	1894	1
	Poteries syro-mésopotamiennes du 14è siécle	Jean Sauvaget	1932	1
	The fauna of ancient Mesopotamia as represented in art	E. Douglas Van Buren	1939	1
	Sculpture of the third millenium B.C. from Tell Asmar and Khafajah	Henri Frankfort	1939	1
	Nendo ni kakereta rekishi	Edward Chiera	1961	1
	Droits cunéiformes	Guillaume Cardascia	1966	1
	The evolution of urban society	Robert McCormick Adams	1966	1
	La frontière de l'Euphrate de Pompée à la conqûete arabe	Victor Chapot	1967	1
	Al- Malābis wa-al-ḥulī 'inda al-Āshūrīyīn	Walīd Jādir	1970	1
	Al- 'Ashā'ir al-'Irāqīyah	'Abd al-Jalīl Ṭāhir	1972	1
	Al- Madrasah al-'Arabīyah fī al-taṣwīr al-Islāmī	ʻĪsá Salmān	1972	1
	Umma in the Sargonic Period	Benjamin R. Foster	1982	1
	Mesopotamia and Iran in the Persian Period: Conquest and Imperialism, 539-331 BC	John Curtis	1997	1
	Mesopotamian Planetary Astronomy-Astrology	David Brown	2000	1
	La Mesopotamia	Barthel Hrouda	2003	1
	MAR.TU: i figli del sole	Sandro Di Gioacchino	2004	1
	Die Repräsentation der Macht und die Macht der Repräsentation in Zeiten des politischen Umbruchs	Marlies Heinz	2008	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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