gems, ancient reference, archaeology, ancient trade, commerce, archaeogemology, Mesopotamia, cosmic geography

Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography represents the main part of my first decade of study as an Assyriologist. The book began its life as a Ph.D. thesis of the same name under the supervision of Professor W. G. Lambert of the University of Birmingham. After completion of the Ph.D. thesis in 1986, I continued to collect materials relevant to the study of Mesopotamian views of cosmography with the intention of revising the thesis as a book in the early 1990s. The book Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography presents this revised, more mature examination of the topic.