The collection includes the best examples of Babylonian-Assyrian literature: the famous "Epic of Gilgamesh," the legend of Atrahasis, the epic poem about Nergal and Ereshkigal and other poems, "Dialogue of two lovers," "Conversation of the master with a slave," "Babylonian theodicy," "Tale of Nippurian poor man," prayer spells, conspiracies, annals, inscriptions, relations of Assyrian kings.