The Biography Of The Pentagram Episode 1: Before Philosophy

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Bibliography
Primary Sources
MUL.APIN
Enūma Anu Enlil
Venus Tablet of Ammisaduqa
The Descent of Inanna
Pyramid Texts
Coffin Texts
Book of the Dead
Ancient Near Eastern History
Jeremy Black. The Literature of Ancient Sumer.
Francesca Rochberg. Before Nature: Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science.
Wayne Horowitz. Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography.
Piotr Michalowski. Selected works on Sumerian literature and early Mesopotamian civilization.
Egyptology
Jan Assmann. Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt.
Erik Hornung. Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt and The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife.
Richard H. Wilkinson. The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt.
General Archaeology and Ancient Religion
Barry Cunliffe. By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean.
Miranda Aldhouse-Green. Selected works on ancient religion and symbolism.
Chris Scarre, ed. The Human Past.
Colin Renfrew and Paul Bahn. Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice.


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