Author: Edgar James Banks
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adab (Extinct city)
Languages : en
Pages : 494

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Author: Karen L. Wilson
Publisher: Oriental Inst Publications Sales
ISBN: 9781885923639
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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"The results of the Bismaya excavations were never properly published, and most of the material was never published at all. Banks wrote a lively and highly readable popular account, Bismya, or the Lost City of Adab, that appeared in 1912 and gave the impression that his field methods were considerably less than satisfactory. However, that was not the case. Banks kept a careful field diary, complete with highly accurate sketches, and sent detailed weekly reports, lavishly illustrated with his own drawings, back to Chicago. These materials show that he excavated a mid-third-millennium BC temple and discovered some of the world's first historical inscriptions incised on stone vessels dedicated in that structure. He also uncovered residences of the late Early Dynastic period, two Akkadian administrative centers, and a palace of the Isin Larsa/Old Babylonian period."--publisher website.

Author: Boston Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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Author: Trevor Bryce
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134159080
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 944

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This 500,000 word reference work provides the most comprehensive general treatment available of the peoples and places of the regions commonly referred to as the ancient Near and Middle East – extending from the Aegean coast of Turkey in the west to the Indus river in the east. It contains some 1,500 entries on the kingdoms, countries, cities, and population groups of Anatolia, Cyprus, Syria-Palestine, Mesopotamia, and Iran and parts of Central Asia, from the Early Bronze Age to the end of the Persian empire. Five distinguished international scholars have collaborated with the author on the project. Detailed accounts are provided of the Near/Middle Eastern peoples and places known to us from historical records. Each of these entries includes specific references to translated passages from the relevant ancient texts. Numerous entries on archaeological sites contain accounts of their history of excavation, as well as more detailed descriptions of their chief features and their significance within the commercial, cultural, and political contexts of the regions to which they belonged. The book contains a range of illustrations, including twenty maps. It serves as a major, indeed a unique, reference source for students as well as established scholars, both of the ancient Near Eastern as well as the Classical civilizations. It also appeals to more general readers wishing to pursue in depth their interests in these civilizations. There is nothing comparable to it on the market today.

Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 844

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Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 842

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Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 842

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Author: Paul Collins
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 178914423X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 215

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The Sumerians are widely believed to have created the world’s earliest civilization on the fertile floodplains of southern Iraq from about 3500 to 2000 BCE. They have been credited with the invention of nothing less than cities, writing, and the wheel, and therefore hold an ancient mirror to our own urban, literate world. But is this picture correct? Paul Collins reveals how the idea of a Sumerian people was assembled from the archaeological and textual evidence uncovered in Iraq and Syria over the last one hundred fifty years. Reconstructed through the biases of those who unearthed them, the Sumerians were never simply lost and found, but reinvented a number of times, both in antiquity and in the more recent past.

Author:
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521077910
Category : History, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 1092

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Author: Mario Liverani
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1614519587
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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Ever since the archaeological rediscovery of the Ancient Near East, generations of scholars have attempted to reconstruct the "real Babylon,” known to us before from the evocative biblical account of the Tower of Babel. After two centuries of excavations and scholarship, Mario Liverani provides an insightful overview of modern, Western approaches, theories, and accounts of the ancient Near Eastern city.