Mesopotamia

When historical fiction readers look for their next epic adventure, the market is usually flooded with novels set in ancient Rome, Tudor England, or Pharaonic Egypt. But what about the true cradle of civilization? Finding high-quality historical fiction novels set in ancient Mesopotamia—spanning the mudbrick metropolises of Sumer to the iron-fisted empires of Assyria and

Diving into the history of ancient Mesopotamia can feel like stepping into a labyrinth. You are dealing with more than 3,000 years of history, a dizzying succession of empires—Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, and Assyrians—and cities that have been buried under the sands of Iraq for millennia. Because the subject is so vast, finding the right book