Beaulieu, Paul-Alain.The Reign of Nabonidus, King of Babylon 556-539 bc. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. Narrow-focus introduction to the neo-Babylonian empire, 626-539 bc.
Bottéro, Jean.Mesopotamia: Writing, Reasoning and the Gods. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. Translated by Zainab Bahrani and Marc Van Der Mieroup.
Brinkman, J. A.A Political History of Post-Kassite Babylonia 1158-722 bc. Rome: Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 1968. A standard text.
Crawford, Harriet.Sumer and the Sumerians. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Covers 3800-2000 bc. Thematic, intended for people starting to study the period.
Edwards, I. E. S., Gadd, C. J., and Hammond, N. G. L., eds.Cambridge Ancient History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 3d ed., 1977. Volume 1, part II.
Kramer, S. N.The Sumerians: Their History, Culture and Character. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1963.
Oates, Joan.Babylon. London, Thames and Hudson, 1979. Covers 2,000 years in one brief volume; chronological and thematic; readable, clear, and very interesting; a good background preparation.
Saggs, H. W. F.The Greatness that was Babylon: A Survey of the Ancient Civilization of the Tigris-Euphrates Valley. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 2d ed., 1988. Covers a wide range of issues with maps and illustrations.
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