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Knowledge is Light: Travellers in the Near East
edited by Katherine Salahi
For thousands of years, travellers wandered to, and spread out through, Egypt and the Near East, seeking trade, adventure and knowledge. For centuries, travellers to and from the Near East carried knowledge with them and then carried home the new knowledge acquired in the region. And knowledge, as the Arabic proverb states, is light. The travels which are the subjects of these nine papers continue to represent the work of The Association for the ...
Paperback. Price US$40.00

Textile Terminologies in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean from the Third to the First Millennnia BC
edited by C. Michel and M.L. Nosch
The written sources from the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean Area from the 3rd to the 1st millennium contain rich terminologies describing textiles.

The Greek word for a long shirt, khiton, ki-to in Linear B, derives from the Semitic root ktn. The Akkadian term for linen is kitm, but the Old Assyrian kutnum is made of wool and the Arab and English word for cotton today has the same ...
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Women Travellers in the Near East
edited by Sarah Searight
Contents: Introduction (Sarah Searight); Travelling to post: Lady Liston, an ambassadress in Constantinople (Deborah Manley); Two feisty ladies in the Levant: Princess Caroline and Lady Craven (Charles Plouviez); Travels in the Slavonic provinces of Turkey-in-Europe: Miss Muir Mackenzie and Miss Irby (Dorothy Anderson); Three travellers in nineteenth-century Egypt: Sarah Belzoni, Amelia Edwards and Margaret Benson ...
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Calendars and Years: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient Near East
edited by John M Steele
Dates form the backbone of written history. But where do these dates come from? Many different calendars were used in the ancient world. Some of these calendars were based upon observations or calculations of regular astronomical phenomena, such as the first sighting of the new moon crescent that defined the beginning of the month in many calendars, while others incorporated schematic simplifications of these phenomena, such as the 360-day year ...
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The Social Context of Technological Change in Egypt and the Near East, 1650-1550 BC
edited by Andrew Shortland
The technological capabilities of the ancient world have long fascinated scholars and the general public alike, though scholarly debate has often seen material culture not as the development of technology, but as a tool for defining chronology and delineating the level of interactions of neighbouring societies. These fourteen papers, arising from a conference held in Oxford in September 2000, take the approach that technology plays a vital role ...
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Saddling the Dogs: Journeys Through Egypt and the Near East
edited by Diane Fortenberry and Deborah Manley
The majority of the papers collected here were delivered at ASTENE's VII Biennial Conference, held at the University of Southampton in July 2007. They cover a range of journeys in Egypt, Greece and east as far as Persia and are linked by the light they shed on the experience of travel in these regions from the 17th to the early 20th century. It is not so much what was seen that is assessed here but how one got there and how one got around once ...
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Catastrophe! The Looting and Destruction of Iraq's Past
edited by Geoff Emberling and Katharyn Hanson
With an introduction by Professor McGuire Gibson, this up-to-date account describes the state of the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad and chronicles the damage done to archaeological sites by illicit digging.

Contributors include Donny George, John M. Russell, Katharyn Hanson, Clemens Reichel, Elizabeth C. Stone, and Patty Gerstenblith. Published in conjunction with the exhibit of the same name opening at the Oriental Institute April 10, ...
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The Land of Assur and the Yoke of Assur: Studies on Assyria 1971-2005
edited by J Nicholas Postgate
This book brings together a selection of twenty-eight previously disparate articles by Nicholas Postgate that represent some thirty years of engagement with the nature of Assyrian society and government. Most are broadly synthetic and deal with general issues; they are a tremendous body of work, and this will be an invaluable collection for everyone interested in Assyria. 368p, b/w illus. (Oxbow Books 2007)
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Archaeological Landscapes of the Near East
by Tony J Wilkinson
This book applies the insights of landscape archaeologists throughout the Mediterranean and Europe to the massive expanses of the Near East, showing how societies ranging in date from the 6th millennium BC to the end of the Early Islamic Period left their signatures on the environment. Based on over 30 years of research this groundbreaking work establishes a new framework for understanding the economic and physical infrastructure of the region, ...
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Cuneiform Texts from Nimrud V: The Nimrud Letters, 1952
edited by Henry W. F. Saggs
In 1952 in one wing of the North-West Palace at Nimrud, ancient Kalhu, Max Mallowan excavated an archive room containing royal correspondence from the reigns of Tiglath-pileser III and Sargon II of Assyria. Subjects include Assyrian military activity in Babylonia and on the northern frontier, royal building projects, events on the Phoenician seaboard, and relations with King Midas of Phrygia. Some texts were published in Iraq between 1955 and ...
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