Ancient Mesopotamia & Persia

The ancient world is mysterious in a way our own times never can be. There are so many things we don't know, so many gaps as yet unfilled by archaeological discovery, so many cultural elements so utterly foreign to our modernist and postmodernist sensibilities. As a result, we're fascinated by times darker than the proverbial Dark Ages, and more alien.

Our need to know isn't a trait inherited from the ancients, however, at least not the Near Eastern civilizations we usually refer to with that phrase. The Greek and Roman cultures were another story, but distinct enough from those around them they're typically dealt with separately. The Near East, while home to a number of ethnicities and nations, was fairly monolithic in attitudes, religion and culture.

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Ancient Israelites and Their Neighbors
by Marian Broida
from Chicago Review Press
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Ancient Near East - Coloring Book
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Assyrians
by Elaine Landau
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Classical Companion
by Charles F. Baker III and Rosalie F. Baker
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Cultural Atlas for Young People: Ancient Mesopotamia
by Erica C. D. Hunter
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Early Civilization
Usborne Illustrated World History
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First Civilizations
History of Everyday Things
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Flood of Noah
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Golden Bull
by Marjorie Cowley
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Kingfisher Atlas of the Ancient World
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Life in Ancient Mesopotamia
by Shilpa Mehta-Jones
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Marathon Looks on the Sea
by Olivia Coolidge, illustrated by Erwin Schachner
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Marathon Looks on the Sea
by Olivia Coolidge, illustrated by Erwin Schachner
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Men of Athens
by Olivia Coolidge, illustrated by Milton Johnson
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1963 Newbery Honor Book
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Men of Athens
by Olivia Coolidge, illustrated by Milton Johnson
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Persian Empire
Cultures of the Past
by Karen Zeinert
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Picturesque Tale of Progress Volume 1
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1949 Edition from Book House for Children
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Picturesque Tale of Progress Volume 2
by Olive Beaupre Miller, Assisted by Harry Neal Baum
1949 Edition from Book House for Children
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1949 Edition from Book House for Children
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Picturesque Tale of Progress Volume 5
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1949 Edition from Book House for Children
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Picturesque Tale of Progress Volume 7
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Picturesque Tale of Progress Volume 8
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Picturesque Tale of Progress: Conquests
by Olive Beaupre Miller
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Polycarp of Smyrna
Heroes of the Faith
by Sinclair B. Ferguson
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Step Into Mesopotamia
by Lorna Oakes
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$4.50 (1 in stock)
Stories of the East from Herodotus
by Alfred J. Church
Ill from Yesterday's Classics
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$12.95
Usborne Ancient World
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Usborne Book of the Ancient World
by Jane Chisholm & Anne Millard
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Usborne World History: Ancient World
by Fiona Chandler
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Usbourne Encyclopedia of the Ancient World
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Ancient History Reference for 4th-8th grade
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Victory on the Walls
Bethlehem Books Living History Library
by Frieda Clark Hyman
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Visual Dictionary of Ancient Civilizations
by DK Publishing
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Warriors Through the Ages - Coloring Book
Dover Coloring Books
by Bruce LaFontaine
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Young People's Story of the Americas (No. 1)
by Virgil M. Hillyer & E. G. Huey
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Young People's Story of the Americas (No. 2)
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Young People's Story of the Ancient World (No. 1)
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