Mesopotamia

ISBN: 9780903472296
Published by : British Institute for the Study of Iraq
Series: Ivories from Nimrud
Volume: VII
The Lost Art of the Phoenicians
Fifty years have passed since the British School of Archaeology in Iraq raised the last ivory from the soil of Fort Shalmaneser. Literally thousands were found, many of which have already been p... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515104128
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Oriens et Occidens
Volume: 21
Hatra is the richest archaeological site in the Parthian Empire known to date and has great potential for a better understanding of this enigmatic empire and its relationship with Rome. After an introduction to this little known site, seventeen co... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781575061733
Published by : Eisenbrauns
The corpus of Early Dynastic figurative monuments from ancient Mesopotamia is substantial. Having established the chronological sequence through an examination of the archaeological contexts of the excavated pieces and the analysis of their inscri... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780903472289
Published by : British Institute for the Study of Iraq
This volume is intended as a tribute to the memory of the Sumerologist Jeremy Black, who died in 2004. The Sumerian phrase zà-mí-zu dug-ga-àm, 'Your praise is sweet', is commonly addressed to a deity at the close of a work of Sumerian literatu... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781885923684
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: ORIENTAL INSTITUTE SEMINARS
Volume: 6
The concept of sign, a portent observed in the physical world, which indicates future events, is found in all ancient cultures, but was first developed in ancient Mesopotamian texts. This branch of Babylonian scientific knowledge extensively in... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789088900310
Published by : Sidestone Press
Throughout history, climate change has been an important driving force behind human behaviour. This archaeological study seeks to understand the complex interrelations between that behaviour and climatic fluctuations, focussing on how climate ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783777450056
Published by : Hirmer Verlag GmbH
The Tower of Babel and the confusion of tongues - today the myth of Babel still fires up the imagination. But what was real life like in historical Babylon? Babylonia's 3000-year-old history and the roots of the myth of Babel are the focus of t... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781885923387
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
The excavation of area WF in the eighteenth and nineteenth seasons at Nippur (1988/89, 1990) was aimed specifically at delineating the transition between the Early Dynastic and Akkadian periods, and this goal has been realised. Augusta McMahon ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780978642907
Published by : Logogram Publishing
With 6,400 entries, this is the most complete available lexicon of ancient Sumerian vocabulary. It replaces version 3 of the author's Sumerian Lexicon , which has served an audience of over 380,000 visitors at the web site sumerian[dot]org si... .... Learn More