"'The Treasures of Darkness' is the culmination of a lifetime's work, an attempt to summarize and recreate the spiritual life of Ancient Mesopotamia. Jacobsen has succeeded brilliantly.... His vast experience shows through every page of this unique book, through the vivid, new translations resulting from years of careful research. It is, quite simply, authoritative, based on a vast experience of the ancient Mesopotamian mind, and very well written in the bargain." -Brian M. Fagan, "History." Illustrated, with an index.

(Key Words: Archaeology, Near Eastern Studies, Religion, Ancient World, Uruk, Ur, Ninurta, Ninhursaga, Nanna, Marduk, Gilgamesh, Enlil, Enki, Dumuzi).