Historical region within the Tigris–Euphrates river system

The comparable body : analogy and metaphor in ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman medicine / edited by John Z. Wee.

Melothesia in Babylonia : medicine, magic, and astrology in the ancient near east / Markham J. Geller.

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The comparable body : analogy and metaphor in ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman medicine / edited by John Z. Wee.

Melothesia in Babylonia : medicine, magic, and astrology in the ancient near east / Markham J. Geller.