Moortgat Anton. The Art of Ancient Mesopotamia: The Classical Art of the Near East

Phaidon, 1969. — 374 p.The culture of Ancient Mesopotamia, which began in the third millennium
b.c. under the Sumerians and Akkadians and culminated in the second and
first millennia B.C. under the Babylonians and Assyrians, was produced
by a succession of races of the most varied origin and language. Yet it
displays an integrated spiritual organism, of which the overriding
unity, combined at the same time with internal diversity, lends itself
for comparison with that of the Christian West after the period of late
Antiquity.