University of Chicago Press, 1981. — 384 p. — ISBN: 0-226-00544-5. In this groundbreaking work, Robert McC. Adams presents the results of archaeological surveys conducted in southern Iraq between 1968 and 1975. Heartland of Cities is at once a detailed description of primary data collected in the field, an innovative exercise in data analysis, and a brilliant work of synthesis....
The University of Chicago Press, 2008. — 246 p. — ISBN: 978-0-226-01377-0. The alluvial lowlands of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in southern Mesopotamia are widely known as the “cradle of civilization,” owing to the scale of the processes of urbanization that took place in the area by the second half of the fourth millennium BCE. In Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of...
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. — 246 p. — ISBN10: 0226013774ж ISBN13: 978-0226013770 The alluvial lowlands of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in southern Mesopotamia are widely known as the “cradle of civilization,” owing to the scale of the processes of urbanization that took place in the area by the second half of the fourth millennium BCE. In Ancient Mesopotamia...
Eisenbrauns, 2015. — 632 p. In July, 2011, the International Association for Assyriology met in Rome, Italy, for 5 days to deliver and listen to papers on the theme "Tradition and Innovation in the Ancient Near East". This volume, the proceedings of the conference, contains more than 40 of the papers read at the 57th annual Rencontre, including 3 plenary lectures/papers, many...
New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2003. — 396 p. — ISBN: 0-8160-4346-9. Modern-day archaeological discoveries in the Near East continue to illuminate our understanding of the ancient world, including the many contributions made by the people of Mesopotamia to literature, art, government, and urban life. The Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia describes the culture, history,...
University of Texas Press, 1992. — 193 p. — ISBN10: 0292707940, 13 978-0292707948. Ancient Mesopotamia was a rich, varied and highly complex culture whose achievements included the invention of writing and the development of sophisticated urban society. This book offers an introductory guide to the beliefs and customs of the ancient Mesopotamians, as revealed in their art and...
De Gruyter, 2018. — 318 p. The Sealand kingdom arose from the rebellion against Babylonian hegemony in the latter half of the 18th century BCE., forcing it to share power over Sumer and Akkad. Although its kings maintained themselves throughout the turmoil leading to the demise of the Amorite dynasty at Babylon, it remains one of the most poorly documented Mesopotamian...
First Published as Mésopotamie. L'écriture, la raison et les dieux / Translated by Zainab Bahrani and Marc Van De Mieroop. — University Of Chicago Press, 1992. — 326 p. — ISBN: 0-226-06726-2. To give the reader some sense of how Mesopotamian civilization has been mediated and interpreted in its transmission through time, Bottero begins with an account of Assyriology, the...
Translated by Jane Marie Todd. — University of Chicago Press, 2010. — 182 p. — ISBN: 978-0-226-10158-3. Ancient Mesopotamia, the fertile crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now western Iraq and eastern Syria, is considered to be the cradle of civilization — home of the Babylonian and Assyrian empires, as well as the great Code of Hammurabi. The Code was...
Originally published at: Fribourg, Switzerland / Göttingen, Germany: Academic Press / Vandenhoeck Ruprecht. — 2004. — 1038 S. Das Buch „Mesopotamien: Die altbabylonische Zeit“ setzt die Reihe über ausgewählte, abgegrenzte Abschnitte der Keilschriftkulturen fort, nachdem die ersten beiden Bände (OBO 160/1 und 3, 1998 und 1999) das III. Jahrtausend in Mesopotamien abgedeckt...
Revised and updated edition. — London, New York: Routledge, 2002. — 336 p. — ISBN: 0-415-25104-4. Mesopotamia was one of the earliest regions to produce writing, literature and the fine arts, as well as being one of the first areas to construct states. This comprehensive and detailed survey of the region's prehistory and protohistory shows how these fascinating developments...
University Of Chicago Press, 1966. — 235 p. — (Series: Babylonian Tablets Speak Today). — ISBN: 0-226-10424-9. Edward Chiera was that most remarkable of men, a competent and respected scholar possessed of an ardent desire to make his research readily and entertainingly available to laymen. More remarkable, Chiera had extraordinary gifts to equal to his desire. They Wrote on...
Oxford World's Classics. Oxford University Press, 2009. — 368 p. The ancient civilization of Mesopotamia thrived between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates over 4,000 years ago. The myths collected here, originally written in cuneiform on clay tablets, include parallels with the biblical stories of the Creation and the Flood, and the famous Epic of Gilgamesh, the tale of a man of...
School of Middle Eastern Studies (SMES), Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University, 2014. — 500 p. The Amorites are known throughout the history of the Ancient Near East: they occur in texts from the Ur III empire (2100–2000 bc), but also in the Bible. In the Old Babylonian period (2000–1600 bc), several dynasties of Amorite...
Brill Academic Pub, 2024. — 270 p. — (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 137). In Prophet, Intermediary, King: The Dynamics of Mediation in the Biblical World and Old Babylonian Mari, Julie B. Deluty investigates the central role of parties mediating prophetic communication with kings. Her book offers an innovative dimension to the social landscape of prophecy.
De Gruyter, 2017. — 252 p. Scholars often assume that the nature of Mesopotamian kingship was such that questioning royal authority was impossible. This volume challenges that general assumption, by presenting an analysis of the motivations,methods, and motifs behind a scholarly discourse about kingship that arose in the final stages of the last Mesopotamian empires. The focus...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. - 360 p. Ancient Mesopotamia is famous for its kings. Sargon of Agade is said to have built the first empire. Hammurabi of Babylon showed off his authority in a collection of standard laws. The shadow of later Assyrian and Babylonian monarchs darkens the prospects of Israel and Judah in the biblical tradition. Karl Marx’s “oriental despotism”...
Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004. – 388 p. – (Writings from the Ancient World. №19). ISBN: 1-58983-090-3 (paper binding: alk. paper) This English translation of Glassner’s «Chroniques Mésopotamiennes» (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1993) collects all chronicle literature of ancient Mesopotamia from the early second millenium to Seleucid times. The volume, which...
Norman Bancroft Hunt. Living in Ancient Mesopotamia. Chelsea House Publications, 2008. - 96 p. - ISBN: 0816063370 (Living in the Ancient World) Living in Ancient Mesopotamia covers the period from 4000 BCE (Sumer) and 1000 to 500 BCE (Assyria and Babylonia). It examines the day-to-day lives of ancient Mesopotamians, from kings and priests to slaves. The structures of the family...
Yale University Press, 1976. — 282 p. — ISBN: 9780300022919. “ The Treasures of Darkness is the culmination of a lifetime’s work, an attempt to summarize and recreate the spiritual life of Ancient Mesopotamia. Jacobsen has succeeded brilliantly...His vast experience shows through every page of this unique book, through the vivid, new translations resulting from years of careful...
Rosen Education Service, 2010. - 214 p. Fantastic and massive human-headed, winged bulls and a curious wedge-shaped writing system are the best-known legacies of the place known as Mesopotamia. Although these objects give some sense of the grandeur and mystery of an ancient culture, the influence of the region and its people extends far beyond them. Long described as the cradle...
Penguin Books, 2001. — 384 p. Situated in an area roughly corresponding to present-day Iraq, Mesopotamia is one of the great, ancient civilizations, though it is still relatively unknown. Yet, over 7,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, the very first cities were created. This is the first book to reveal how life was lived in ten Mesopotamian cities: from Eridu, the Mesopotamian Eden,...
Revised Edition. — Thames and Hudson, 1984. — 251 p. Ancient Mesopotamia, the "valley of the twin rivers," Tigris and Euphrates, was the cradle of civilization in the Near East. Here, among the Sumerians, the earliest experiments were made in writing and mathematics, organized religion and the communal administration of city-states. For over a century, archaeologists have...
Routledge, 2003. ISBN 0-203-45064-7 (Master e-book ISBN). ISBN 0-203-45661-0 (Adobe eReader Format). ISBN 0-415-096596 (pbk.). The Emergence of Civilisation is a major contribution to our understanding of the development of urban culture and social stratification in the Near Eastern region. Charles Maisels argues that our present assumptions about state formation, based on...
ABC-Clio, 2005. — 395 p. — (Understanding Ancient Civilizations). — ISBN: 1-57607-966-X. In recent years there has been a significant and steady increase of academic and popular interest in the study of past civilizations. This is due in part to the dramatic coverage, real or imagined, of the archaeological profession in popular film and television, and to extensive...
Greenwood Press, 1998. — 345 p. — (Series: Daily Life Through History). — ISBN: 0-313-29497-6. The ancient world of Mesopotamia (from Sumer to the subsequent division into Babylonia and Assyria) vividly comes alive in this portrayal of the time period from 3100 bce to the fall of Assyria (612 bce) and Babylon (539 bce). Readers will discover fascinating details about the lives...
Revised edition completed by Erica Reiner. — University Of Chicago Press, 1977. — 445 p. — ISBN: 978-0226631875. "This splendid work of scholarship...sums up with economy and power all that the written record so far deciphered has to tell about the ancient and complementary civilizations of Babylon and Assyria."—Edward B. Garside, New York Times Book Review. Ancient Mesopotamia...
Brill, 2018. — 968 p. Mesopotamian Medicine and Magic: Studies in Honour of Markham J. Geller is a thematically focused collection of 34 brand-new essays bringing to light a representative selection of the rich and varied scientific and technical knowledge produced chiefly by the cuneiform cultures. The contributions concentrate mainly on Mesopotamian scholarly descriptions and...
Routledge, 1994. — 392 p. The roots of our modern world lie in the civilization of Mesopotamia, which saw the development of the first urban society and the invention of writing. The cuneiform texts reveal the technological and social innovations of Sumer and Babylonia as surprisingly modern, and the influence of this fascinating culture was felt throughout the Near East. Early...
Routledge, 1994. — 392 p. The roots of our modern world lie in the civilization of Mesopotamia, which saw the development of the first urban society and the invention of writing. The cuneiform texts reveal the technological and social innovations of Sumer and Babylonia as surprisingly modern, and the influence of this fascinating culture was felt throughout the Near East. Early...
Budapest: Helikon-Magyar könyvklub, 1998. — 240 o. Richly illustrated album on the history of Ancient Mesopotamia. Series: Képes atlasz. Language: Hungarian. Az utolsó jégkorszak utáni, illetve a mediterrán (görög, római) kultúrák fölvirágzása előtti korban az emberi társadalom és civilizáció a Tigris és az Eufrátesz folyamok közötti területen fejlődött a legintenzívebben:...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 358 p. In antiquity, the expertise of the Babylonians in matters of the heavens was legendary, and the roots of both western astronomy and astrology are traceable in cuneiform tablets going back to the second and first millennia B.C. The Heavenly Writing discusses Babylonian celestial divination, horoscopy, and astronomy, the...
University Of Chicago Press, 2017. — 392 p. In the modern West, we take for granted that what we call the “natural world” confronts us all and always has - but "Before Nature" explores that almost unimaginable time when there was no such conception of “nature” - no word, reference, or sense for it. Before the concept of nature formed over the long history of European philosophy...
Leiden: Brill, 2010. — 445 p. — (Studies in Ancient Magic and Divination)/ Celestial divination, in the form of omens from lunar, planetary, astral, and meteorological phenomena, was central to Mesopotamian cuneiform scholarship and science from the late second millennium BCE into the Hellenistic period. Beyond the boundaries of ancient Mesopotamia, the ideas, texts, and...
Third Edition. — Penguin Books, 1992. — 547 p. — (Penguin History). — ISBN: 978-0-140-12523-8. Until the middle of the nineteenth century there was little evidence of the great civilizations that flourished for over three thousand years between the Tigris and the Euphrates, apart from a few allusions in the Bible. Almost every trace of the arts, sciences and literature of the...
Brill Academic Pub., 2006 - 800 p. This work explores the interaction between magic and medicine in ancient Mesopotamia, as applied specifically to ghosts. Included is a discussion of sin and natural causes in Mesopotamian medicine. Additionally, it transliterates and translates from Assyrian 352 prescriptions designed to cure psychological and physical ailments thought to be...
Chelsea House Publications, 2009. — 152 p. — (Great Empires of the Past). Mesopotamia, the land between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, was the site of the world's first stable civilizations, including Sumer, Babylonia, and Assyria. As people settled permanently along the Fertile Crescent, they built irrigation systems to bring water to crops and constructed levees as...
De Gruyter, 2009-2011. — 700 S. Das „Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie“ (RlA) stellt das längste Publikationsprojekt der Wissenschaften vom Alten Orient dar. Sein erster Faszikel erschien 1928, der letzte 2018: ein Zeitraum von 90 Jahren. Die Enzyklopädie umfasst die Archäologie, die Geschichte und die Kultur des alten Vorderasiens (Mesopotamien,...
De Gruyter, 2011-2013. — 718 S. Das „Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie“ (RlA) stellt das längste Publikationsprojekt der Wissenschaften vom Alten Orient dar. Sein erster Faszikel erschien 1928, der letzte 2018: ein Zeitraum von 90 Jahren. Die Enzyklopädie umfasst die Archäologie, die Geschichte und die Kultur des alten Vorderasiens (Mesopotamien,...
De Gruyter, 2014-2016. — 709 S. Das „Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie“ (RlA) stellt das längste Publikationsprojekt der Wissenschaften vom Alten Orient dar. Sein erster Faszikel erschien 1928, der letzte 2018: ein Zeitraum von 90 Jahren. Die Enzyklopädie umfasst die Archäologie, die Geschichte und die Kultur des alten Vorderasiens (Mesopotamien,...
Routledge, 1999. — 198 p. — (Approaching the Ancient World). — ISBN: 0-203-97837-4. History does not begin in classical antiquity. Several cultures in the Near East predate Greek historical tradition by many centuries. To understand the history of one of the main ancient Near Eastern cultures, that of Mesopotamia, the scholar has to rely on cuneiform texts, which represent the...
Clarendon Press, 1997. — 284 p. — ISBN: 0-19-815062-8. Urban history starts in ancient Mesopotamia: the earliest known cities developed there as the result of long indigenous processes, and, for millennia, the city determined every aspect of Mesopotamian civilization. Marc Van De Mieroop examines urban life in the historical period, investigating urban topography, the role of...
Abstract: The fi rst part by Klaas Veenhof ”The Old Assyrian Period” is a critical overview of our knowledge of and at the same time an introduction to the study of the Old Assyrian Period (fi rst two centuries of the 2nd mill. B.C.), as we know it from discoveries in ancient Assur and in particular from the cuneiform archives of the Old Assyrian traders living in an commercial...
Warminster, England: Aris & Phillips Ltd., 1989. — 135 p. The Hurrians were one of the principal contributors to ancient Near Eastern civilisation and yet we know far less about their language, history and culture than we do about the Sumerians, Assyrians or Hittites. In this book, Professor Wilhelm has gathered the scattered threads from a great range of sources between 2500...
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