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A man using a raft of inflated skins to navigate the River Tigris. Wood engraving.

Two men and a woman crossing the river Tigris on inflated skins. Wood engraving.

World War I: Private Fynn V.C., S.W. Borderers. Oil painting by Ugo Matania, 1916.

Lime juice for the treatment of scurvy, issued to soldiers on the British Front in Iraq. Photograph, 1914/1918.

A woman's bare foot treading on the shoe of a man with two skulls touching above with the word 'AIDS'; a warning about the importance of safe sex and the dangers of AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1995.

Medicinal plants of Iraq / by Ali al-Rawi and H. L. Chakravarty.

On beer and brewing techniques in ancient Mesopotamia : according to the XXIIIrd tablet of the series ḪAR.r a = ḫubullu / by Louis F. Hartman and A. L. Oppenheim.

The topography of remembrance : the dead, tradition and collective memory in Mesopotamia / by Gerdien Jonker ; [translated by Helen Richardson].

Gods, demons, and symbols of ancient Mesopotamia : an illustrated dictionary / Jeremy Black and Anthony Green ; illustrations by Tessa Rickards.

Deliver me from evil : Mesopotamian incantations, 2500-1500 BC / Graham Cunningham.

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Medicinal plants of Iraq / by Ali al-Rawi and H. L. Chakravarty.

On beer and brewing techniques in ancient Mesopotamia : according to the XXIIIrd tablet of the series ḪAR.r a = ḫubullu / by Louis F. Hartman and A. L. Oppenheim.

The topography of remembrance : the dead, tradition and collective memory in Mesopotamia / by Gerdien Jonker ; [translated by Helen Richardson].

Gods, demons, and symbols of ancient Mesopotamia : an illustrated dictionary / Jeremy Black and Anthony Green ; illustrations by Tessa Rickards.

Deliver me from evil : Mesopotamian incantations, 2500-1500 BC / Graham Cunningham.