Mesopotamia

ISBN: 9783700132783
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
In 2002 an international conference organised by the SCIEM 2000 programme (Synchronization of the Civilisations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 2nd Millennium BC) was held in Vienna. This volume includes seven papers from the conference whi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783896466334
Published by : Verlag Marie Leidorf GmbH
This analysis of early metalworking in Mesopotamia comprises a catalogue of 2,623 metal objects from 68 find sites in Iraq and Syria. This is followed by another catalogue or inventory of 2777 X-ray fluoresence and 145 neutron activation analys... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521828857
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Most of us are happy to believe that ancient Greece was the home of democracy but this should not blinker us to the possibility that primitive democracies could have existed elsewhere or earlier. Based on more than 3000 letters fr... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521810715
Published by : Cambridge University Press
The impact of the Achaemenid Empire on the people and places that it annexed is a challenging field of study, made notoriously difficult because of the nature of the sources. In this study, Dusinberre examines archaeological, art and textual s... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780415253147
Published by : Routledge Ltd
The city of Babylon has had much bad press throughout its history and has always been perceived as the archetypal city representing the Mesopotamian civilisation. Recent archaeological investigations and especially the translation of cuneiform ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780415253154
Published by : Routledge Ltd
The city of Babylon has had much bad press throughout its history and has always been perceived as the archetypal city representing the Mesopotamian civilisation. Recent archaeological investigations and especially the translation of cuneiform ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789004124042
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
This specialised study of the main features of the Old-Babylonian literary system, including both epic and non-epic literature, is an expanded and updated edition of the author's doctoral dissertation. Wasserman examines the features that made ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780300098839
Published by : Yale University Press
This large volume accompanies an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2003, celebrating the artistic achievements of the period during which the first cities emerged in Mesopotamia. The impressive list of internation... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781575060736
Published by : Eisenbrauns
A collection of nineteen papers from an international conference held at Tel Aviv University in 2001 focusing on issues associated with the history of Achaemenid Judah based on exploring evidence from the 5-6 decades of Babylonian rule before ... .... Learn More