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Assyrian dream book - one of the oldest dream books known to mankind. It reflects the views of the people who inhabited the once ancient Assyria (ancient Mesopotamia). Extant sources eloquently that the representatives of the people were great connoisseurs and fans of magic in its diverse manifestations. The Mesopotamians regarded dreams as a way to predict the future, because in the dream state that people can communicate with the deities themselves! Specially trained people interpreted the vision and to put them in the special collections. Since it is the first inhabitants of Mesopotamia invented cuneiform, dream interpretation has been created with the help of this sort of writing. Recordings were made on wet clay tablets, which had dried, are used to store information. How many of them were in the original dream book - is unknown, but the XIX century, when the cuneiform texts discovered, archaeologists, "survived" only eleven. During the excavation of the library belonging to the Assyrian King Ashshurbanapalu, scientists have found signs of the interpretation of dreams, and determined their age - approximately I th. BC. Dreaming they were divided by topics - for example, travel, animals, poems, etc. Interestingly, in the "division" of the food mentioned in the original cannibalism, and dreams about the road trip featured in the kingdom of the dead to heaven. In contrast to other known sets of interpretations of dreams, for example, Miller's dream book or dream book of Nostradamus, Assyrian contained a separate section with practical suggestions that help neutralize bad dreams. However, since it was done with the help of magical rites and incantations, modern people are not able to take them into service. Clay tablets because of advanced age remained very bad, so we were reached only a small portion of the volume of interpretations. The merit of the English translation belongs to the American scholar of Assyriology-Oppenheim. Ancient tablets found eternal peace in the British Museum, but imprinted on them insightful knowledge Mesopotamians long ago turned into the public domain.