Ancient Near East & Cyprus

ISBN: 9781842174944
Published by : Oxbow Books
Nishapur in eastern Iran was an important Silk Road city, its position providing links to central Asia and China, Afghanistan and India, the Persian Gulf and the west. Despite previous excavations there are many unresolved questions surrounding... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780415569675
Published by : Routledge Ltd
This new companion to the Sumerian civilization of third millennium BC southern Mesopotamia is a mine of information, with 32 chapters exploring a vast array of topics. After an initial section exploring physical and linguistic co... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781842175071
Published by : Oxbow Books
Although the Assyrian kingdom that dominated the Ancient Near East between the ninth and seventh centuries BC had a rich material culture, attested particularly by the distinctive stone wall reliefs and colossal gateway figures, practically not... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789058676917
Published by : Leuven University Press
Lapis Lazuli from the Kiln examines the history of the first glass, from its early sporadic occurrence, through the height of its production in the late second millennium BC, to its disappearance at the end of that millennium. The area covered ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780714150796
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd
In May 1880 Captain F.C. Burton, a British political officer in Afghanistan, rescued a group of merchants who had been captured by bandits while travelling between Kabul and Peshawar. With them was a rich and impressive collection of gold and s... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781598746716
Published by : Left Coast Press
Studies of mortuary archaeology tend to focus on difference - how the researcher can identify age, gender, status, and ethnicity from the contents of a burial. Jill Baker's innovative approach begins from the opposite point: how can you recogni... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781780760612
Published by : Tauris & Co Ltd
This latest volume in "The Idea of Iran" series traces that critical moment in Iranian history which followed the transformation of ancient traditions during the country's conversion and initial Islamic period. Contributors discuss, from a var... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199607570
Published by : Oxford University Press
This volume offers the first comprehensive examination of an ancient writing system from Cyprus and Syria known as Cypro-Minoan, which remains undeciphered. With a new methodology concentrating on a ground-breaking contextual approach, Ferrara ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781405189880
Published by : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
This comprehensive and authoritative work draws together 58 new essays from an international community of ancient Near East scholars. It highlights the enormous variation in cultural developments across roughly 11,000 years of human endeavour. ... .... Learn More