A Nerd's Cry: Where's the Freakin' Mesopotamian section!!???

Greetings internetgoers, if you don't enjoy listening to rants about ancient history, perhaps this will not be your favorite post in the world. On the other hand if it happens to be your favorite thing, then please, read on. I speak of a great imbalance in our modern western view of the Ancient Near East. Everywhere you look for stuff on the Ancient Near East it's Egypt! EGYPT!!, EGYPT!!, EGYPT!! You'd think they were the only freakin' civilization before 1000 BCE!! Now don't get me wrong Egypt's a great civiliztion but what about Ancient Mesopotamia. Ancient Mesopotamia is good too, they had writing(even before Egypt), invented the wheel, were brilliant mathematicians(knowing an approximation of pi, and roots), had the first written law code, are the reason why our hours and minutes are divided into 60 units, and above all they are the location of where many of are modern domesticated plants and animals come from: wheat, barley, sheep, goats, and pigs(which were also domesticated in China) all come from the area of ancient Mesopotamia. Yet despite all this when I go to a local bookstore do I find a single book on Ancient Mesopotamia, NO!! Yet there were dozens of books on Ancient Egypt, including numerous on Egyptian Hieroglyphics (another galling fact: Hieroglyphics never made it beyond Egypt, ok maybe they made it into the levant a little ways, but still Akkadian[the language of Babylonia and Assyrian] was the freakin' lingua franca of the Ancient Near East and the writing system it used(cuneiform) was adapted for more than 10 languages. Egpytians wrote in Akkadian, Hittites wrote in Akkadian, Elamites and Urartians all in Akkadian, yet there is not a single book at any local stores of Akkadian or Cuneiform[I have to look online for them] only books for Hieroglyphics which was only used for the Egyptian language inside Egypt!!) When I am looking at historical documentaries there are oodles and oodles of documentaries on Ancient Egypt, yet I only saw one of Ancient Mesopotamia, and it sucked. About the only thing Ancient Mesopotamia is known for is being bad, though to be fair this is mostly just said about the Babylonians, I take mesopotamia to include Assyria(who kind of have a bad reputation too), Sumer, and Akkad. Everyone always talks of the wickedness of Babylon. Yet most people who talk of that only know Babylon from the Hebrew perspective in the Bible(which I'm not knocking, it's an excellent source of history as well as religious insight), that's like only knowing the United States from the perspective of al-qaeda or something. Do people who say Babylon is evil even know why Babylon is considered evil (From what I've experienced, they often don't)?. The Ancient Mesopotamians weren't perfect, but from the biased Hebrew account in the Bible account you can't see their good side. At any rate my point is this Ancient Mesopotamia is a sweet action ancient culture(or group of cultures) that shouldn't be so ignored. There should be more books and documentaries about it in stores!! That's all I have to say. Ok, one more thing, I guess I should look at it from the bright side, I think people pay more attention to Ancient Mesopotamia than they do to the Hittites, and if you're a ghost from ancient Urartu you might as well forget about your country being remembered by anyone nowadays except the snootiest scholars and the nerdiest nerds(like myself).