Buml I'm interested too

Age of Agade. Covers the Akkadian Empire, there's little narrative but that's to be expected. Mostly just an exploration of most of what we know of them.
Brotherhood of Kings. It's about bronze age diplomacy, despite being the most powerful men in the world and kings, they were all also petty assholes who whined about dumb shit to each other. Very good read.
Assyria by Eckart. More on the pop history side but I didn't find anything that bad with it. It covers mostly Neo-Assyria but Old and Middle Assyria get their parts.
Gilgamesh. Duh.
1177 BC. Super popular book but it still gives you a good idea of the world at the time.
Egypt of the Saite Pharaohs, 664–525 Bc by Roger Forshaw. If you want to know about late period Egypt this is it.
Pharaohs of the Sun. More pop history but still a good introduction to the problems and narrative of the 18th dynasty

Just make sure to reign in your expectations. Until Neo-Assyria and the Saite dynasty, nothing is really able to be dated precisely in ancient history (it's still argued to give them a 20 year ranged). They always give in like a range of 100 years, with it getting longer the more you go back up to nearly 300 years for the Early Dynastic Period. It's incredibly hard to figure things out about these people and there is a lot of unknowns.

>>24830309
>Buml

>>24830333
thank you

>>24828751
Have you heard of the Epic of Gilgamesh? They say it's one of the oldest texts. Read the translation by Kent H. Dixon.

>>24831246
yeah, I've read the epic. is there an anthropological text that accompanies it? like somthing that explains the context and what's being said? it's fine if it's like a lecture type great courses thing

>>24830768
Based Buml appreciator :) I want sum real schizo Atlantean antediluvian shit, anyone got any recs?

op here, what are good reads on mythology where there's the original text and scholarly explanations about themes/context/etc?