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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 ...
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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
Written sources from the ancient Near East and eastern Mediterranean, from the third to the first millennia BC, provide a wealth of terms for textiles. The twenty-two chapters in the present volume offer the first comprehensive survey of this important material, with special attention to evidence for significant interconnections in textile terminology among languages and cultures, across space and time

For example, the Greek word for a ...
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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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Saddling the Dogs: Journeys Through Egypt and the Near East
edited by Diane Fortenberry and Deborah Manley
In the absence of horses, saddle the dogs.

This Arab proverb, suggesting the uncompromising determination of nomads to keep moving, whatever the obstacles, epitomizes also the travelling ethos of many early visitors to the 'exotic East'. The journeys examined here are linked by the light they shed on the experience of travel in Egypt, Greece and the Ottoman Balkans, and the Near East from the 17th to the early 20th century not so ...
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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, 2008, ...
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Archaeological Landscapes of the Near East
by Tony J Wilkinson
Although most of the ancient cities and cultures of the Near East have been widely studied, what has been lacking is a broad synthetic approach to how these interacted with and brought change upon the landscape. Tony Wilkinson's study offers both theoretical and methodological perspectives and guidance on more than 10,000 years of Near Eastern archaeology tracing trends and themes in how humans have interacted with and altered the landscape. ...
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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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Ivories from Nimrud VI: Ivories from the North West Palace (1845-1992)
by Georgina Herrmann and Stuart Laidlaw, with Helena Coffey
The great, ninth century palace which Ashurnasirpal II (883-859) built at his new capital of Kalhu/Nimrud has been excavated over 150 years by various expeditions. Each has been rewarded with remarkable antiquities, including the finest ivories found in the ancient Near East, many of which had been brought to Kalhu by the Assyrian kings. The first ivories were discovered by Austen Henry Layard, followed a century later by Max Mallowan, who found ...
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Excavations at Tell Brak 4: Exploring an Upper Mesopotamian Regional Centre, 1994-1996
by Roger Matthews
Tell Brak in Syria is one of the largest and most important multi-period sites in northern Mesopotamia. Excavations in 1994-1996 cast new light on everyday life at the settlement through several phases of occupation from the early 4th millennium BC to the 2nd millennium BC. Volume 4 in the Tell Brak Monograph series provides an account of the architecture, artefacts, and environmental evidence, supported by a program of radiocarbon dating. The ...
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Arabische Welt. Grammatik, Dichtung und Dialekte: Beiträge einer Tagung im Juli 2008 in Erlangen zu Ehren von Wolfdietrich Fischer
edited by Shabo Talay and Hartmut Bobzin
English summary: This volume contains a selection of 15 contributions stemming from a conference of the same name held in July 2008 in honor of the Erlanger Orientalist Wolfdietrich Fischer. Wolfdietrich Fischer, who held the chair of Oriental Philology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg from 1964 to 1995, provided impetus in his dissertation on the study of the colloquial Arabic for the world-renowned Arab dialectology in Germany, ...
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