Henrietta McCall

Briefly describes the rediscovery and decipherment of the Mesopotamian myths and legends, introduces and retells the Epic of Gilgamesh, and others, and examines their importance, both past and present

Mesopotamian Myths

John Curtis

Dominique Collon

J. E. Curtis

L. al-Gailani Werr

This book publishes 34 papers by international and Iraqi experts given at a conference on Nimrud at The British Museum in 2002. Excavations at the important Assyrian capital city of Nimrud have continued intermittently since 1845, culminating with the discovery in 1989-90 of the tombs of the Assyrian queens with astonishing quantities of gold jewellery. All aspects of the excavations and the various finds and inscribed material from Nimrud are considered in this volume, with particular attention being paid to the tombs of the queens and their contents. The evidence of inscriptions and the results of paleopathological investigation are brought together to identify the bodies in the tombs. There is much previously unpublished information about the tombs, and the jewellery is fully illustrated in eight colour plates. Finally, the significance of Nimrud as one of the greatest sites in the Ancient Near East is fully assessed.

Proceedings of the Nimrud Conference 11th-13th March 2002

New Light on Nimrud

Mythes de la Mésopotamie. Un riche héritage de création littéraire, au vaste souffle épique, nous fut révélé lorsque, au XIXe siècle, des érudits réussirent à déchiffrer les mystérieux symboles de l'écriture cunéiforme inscrits sur des tablettes d'argile, il y a plus de cinq mille ans, par les Mésopotamiens de la Haute Antiquité. Des thèmes étonnamment familiers apparurent alors, forçant le monde victorien à réviser ses croyances en la Bible comme source unique de vérité. Ainsi, l'Epopée de Gilgamesh, la saga d'un homme parti à la recherche de la vie éternelle, comprend des scènes d'un déluge antérieur à l'histoire de Noé et de son arche...Une autre version de l'origine de l'humanité est décrite dans l'Epopée de la Création mésopotamienne, tandis que la légende d'Etana préfigure le mythe de la Mésopotamie fondent à leur manière notre tradition littéraire occidentale. Ce sont aussi, tout simplement, des histoires fascinantes.

Mythes de la Mésopotamie

Shillito Fellow in Assyriology at the Oriental Institute Senior Research Fellow Stephanie Dalley

A. T. Reyes

Professor of the History of Mathematics and Classics David Pingree

Teacher of Greek and Latin A T Reyes

David Pingree

Alison Salvesen

Shillito Fellow in Assyriology Oriental Institute Oxford Senior Research Fellow Stephanie Dalley

Influence from Mesopotamia on adjacent civilizations has often been proposed on the basis of scattered similarities. For the first time a wide-ranging assessment from 3000 BC to the Middle Ages investigates how similarities arose in Egypt, Palestine, Anatolia, and Greece. The development of writing for accountancy, astronomy, devination, and belles lettres emanated from Mesopotamians who took their academic traditions into countries beyond their political control. Each country soon transformed what it received into its own, individual culture. When cuneiform writing disappeared, Babylonian cults and literature, now in Aramaic and Greek, flourished during the Roman Empire. The Manichaeans adapted the old traditions which then perished under persecution, but traces persist in Hermetic works, court narratives and romances, and in the Arabian Nights. When ancient Mesopotamia was rediscovered in the last century, British scholars were at the forefront of international research. Public excitement has been reflected in pictures and poems, films and fashion.

The Legacy of Mesopotamia

Explores the mythology of ancient Egypt, discussing how each person, aided by individual gods and goddesses, had a duty to help keep the powers of evil from taking over the world.

Gods & Goddesses in the Daily Life of the Ancient Egyptians

Jonathan Taylor

Julian Reade

Jonathan N. Tubb

Irving L. Finkel

Yūsuf Ḥasanʹzādah

Paul E. Zimansky

Elnathan Weissert

François Bridey

Thomas Michael Kiely

Falih Almutrb

Sébastien Rey

Davide Nadali

Paul Thomas Collins

Ronnie Goldstein

John MacGinnis

Chikako E. Watanabe

Jamie R. Novotny

A fascinating glimpse into ancient Assyrian culture, history, and art explored through one of its most famous rulers, King Ashurbanipal.

King of the World, King of Assyria

I Am Ashurbanipal

Henrietta McCall

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