Thorkild Jacobsen

'The Harps that Once...'

Bog | Engelsk

The eminent Assyriologist Thorkild Jacobsen, author of Treasures of Darkness , here presents translations of ancient Sumerian poems written near the end of the third millennium b.c.e., including a number of compositions that have never before been publish

'The Treasures of Darkness'

Bog | Engelsk

A recreation of the spiritual life of ancient Mesopotamia demonstrating that the roots of Western civilization lie in the ancient Near East "A brilliant presentation of Mesopotamian religion from the inside, backed at every point by meticulous schola