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  The Lost Book of Enki: Memoirs and Prophecies of an Extraterrestrial god

  by Zecharia Sitchin

  The companion volume to The Earth Chronicles series that reveals the identity of mankind's ancient gods. • Explains why these "gods" from Nibiru, the Anunnaki, genetically engineered Homo sapiens, gave Earthlings civilization, and promised to return. • 30,000 sold in hardcover. Zecharia Sitchin's bestselling series The Earth Chronicles provided humanity's side of the story concerning our origins at the... (more)
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  Inanna, queen of heaven and earth: Her stories and hymns from Sumer

  by Samuel Noah Wolkstein, Diane and Kramer, Diane Wolkstein, Samuel Noah Kramer

  A fresh retelling of the ancient texts about Ishtar, the world's first goddess. Illustrated with visual artifacts of the period. "A great masterpiece of universal literature."--Mircea Eliade
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  Oxford First Ancient History (Oxford First Books)

  by Roy E. C. Burrell

  Interspersing fact-filled essays with fictional eyewitness accounts, Roy Burrell makes the ancient world a real place inhabited by real people going about their everyday business of work and family life. A fascinating essay about the history of the region of Mesopotamia is followed by "interviews" with an early settler who extols the virtues of the date palm, with a 12-year-old boy who is studying to be a scribe,... (more)
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  The Days of Peleg

  by Jon Saboe

  Why Is Humanity Dying? It is now one hundred years since the Great Awakening, and the human race is finally colonizing the world with new settlements and centers of commerce. Reu-Nathor, High Minister of the Citadel , announces an expedition to explore their new world, and Peleg is commissioned as Chief Cartographer aboard the Urbat . Peleg's core beliefs are challenged and his sense of reality... (more)
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  Stars, Stones and Scholars: The Decipherment of the Megaliths as an Ancient Survey of the Earth by Astronomy

  by Andis Kaulins

  This survey will surpass its namesake, Gods, Graves and Scholars by Ceram, just as the Stars preceded the Gods and the Stones preceded the Graves.
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  Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart : Poems of the Sumerian High

  by Enheduanna

  "That these poems deal immediately with the very popular 'goddess literature' and with an individual woman in a most important historical situation should give this work widespread appeal." -John Maier, SUNY College at Brockport, cotranslator of the Epic of Gilgamesh The earliest known author of written literature was a woman named Enheduanna, who lived in ancient Mesopotamia around 2300 BCE. High Priestess to... (more)
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  Sumer: Cities of Eden (Lost Civilizations)

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  The Epic of Gilgamesh: An English Verison with an Introduction (Penguin Classics)

  by Anonymous

  Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survived from the ancient literature of Babylon, immortalized in this epic poem that dates back to the 3rd millennium BC. Together they journey to the Spring of Youth, defeat the Bull of Heaven and slay the monster Humbaba. When Enkidu dies, Gilgamesh's grief and fear of death are such that they lead him to undertake a quest for eternal... (more)
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  Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others (Oxford World's Classics)

  These tales from the ancient civilizations of the "fertile crescent" stand alongside the Odyssey and the Arabian Nights in being popular with an international audience at the dawn of recorded history. Here are myths of the Creation and of the Flood, as well as the fascinating Epic of Gilgamesh, a story of heroic failure in a moment of human weakness.
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  The Epic of Gilgamesh

  by Stephen Mitchell, David Ferry, Herbert Mason, A. R. George

  Gilgamesh is the first known piece of literature in the world. It is located in the Mesopotamian land. Translated with an Introduction by Andrew George.
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  The Wars of Gods and Men: Book III of the Earth Chronicles

  by Zecharia Sitchin

  Eons ago, the Earth was a battlefield. Mighty armies clashed, led by giant warriors meticulously skilled in the art of combat. These wars would shape man's destiny and live on for centuries in legend, song and religious lore -- brutal and terrible conflicts that began lifetimes earlier on another planet. In the astonishing third volume of Zecharia Sitchin's The Earth Chronicles, the internationally renowned... (more)