Mesopotamian archaeology; an introduction to the archaeology of Babylonia and Assyria
Author : Percy Stuart Peache Handcock
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Page : 522 pages
File Size : 42,50 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Iraq
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Author : Percy Stuart Peache Handcock
Publisher :
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 42,50 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Iraq
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Author : Percy S. P. Handcock
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 25,96 MB
Release : 2023-06-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1666777447
Author : A. Leo Oppenheim
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 30,78 MB
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 022617767X
"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—the area now called Iraq—has received less attention than ancient Egypt and other long-extinct and more spectacular civilizations. But numerous small clay tablets buried in the desert soil for thousands of years make it possible for us to know more about the people of ancient Mesopotamia than any other land in the early Near East. Professor Oppenheim, who studied these tablets for more than thirty years, used his intimate knowledge of long-dead languages to put together a distinctively personal picture of the Mesopotamians of some three thousand years ago. Following Oppenheim's death, Erica Reiner used the author's outline to complete the revisions he had begun. "To any serious student of Mesopotamian civilization, this is one of the most valuable books ever written."—Leonard Cottrell, Book Week "Leo Oppenheim has made a bold, brave, pioneering attempt to present a synthesis of the vast mass of philological and archaeological data that have accumulated over the past hundred years in the field of Assyriological research."—Samuel Noah Kramer, Archaeology A. Leo Oppenheim, one of the most distinguished Assyriologists of our time, was editor in charge of the Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute and John A. Wilson Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Chicago.
Author : Robert Chadwick
Publisher : Equinox Publishing Ltd.
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 15,23 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9781904768784
First Civilizations is the second edition of a popular student text first published in 1996 in Montreal by Les Editions Champ Fleury. This much updated and expanded edition provides an introductory overview of the civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt. It was conceived primarily for students who have little or no knowledge of ancient history or archaeology. The book begins with the role of history and archaeology in understanding the past, and continues with the origins of agriculture and the formation of the Sumerian city-states in Mesopotamia. Three subsequent chapters concentrate on Assyrian and Babylonian history and culture. The second half of the book focuses on Egypt, begining with the physical environment of the Nile, the formation of the Egyptian state and the Old Kingdom. Subsequent chapters discuss the Middle Kingdom, the Hyksos period, and the 18th Dynasty, with space devoted to Hatshepsut, Akhenaten, the Ramesside period. The text ends with the Persian conquest of Mesopotamia and Egypt. First Civilizations also contains sections on astronomy, medicine, architecture, eschatology, religion, burial practices and mummification, and discusses the myths of Gilgamesh, Isis and Osiris. Each chapter has a basic bibliography which emphasizes English language encyclopedias, books and journals specializing in the ancient Near East.
Author : Percy Stuart Peache Handcock
Publisher :
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 10,46 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Iraq
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Author : Robert William Rogers
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Page : 776 pages
File Size : 24,38 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Assyria
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Author : Enrico Ascalone
Publisher : Dictionaries of Civilization
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 39,47 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN :
Lavishly illustrated in full colour, this book is arranged topically to cover the broad areas of life, such as people, politics, religion, the world of the dead, and important places and monuments. It is the perfect companion to an important ancient civilisation.
Author : Roger Matthews
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,37 MB
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1135134537
The only critical guide to the theory and method of Mesopotamian archaeology, this innovative volume evaluates the theories, methods, approaches and history of Mesopotamian archaeology from its origins in the nineteenth century up to the present day. Ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq), was the original site of many of the major developments in human history, such as farming, the rise of urban literate societies and the first great empires of Akkad, Babylonia and Assyria. Dr. Matthews places the discipline within its historical and social context, and explains how archaeologists conduct their research through excavation, survey and other methods. In four fundamental chapters, he uses illustrated case-studies to show how archaeologists have approached central themes such as: * the shift from hunting to farming * complex societies * empires and imperialism * everyday life. This will be both an ideal introductory work and useful as background reading on a wide range of courses.
Author : William Rainey Harper
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Page : 460 pages
File Size : 42,83 MB
Release : 1912
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"Books for New Testament study ... [By] Clyde Weber Votaw" v. 26, p. 271-320; v. 37, p. 289-352.
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Page : 558 pages
File Size : 36,68 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Greece
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Vols. 1-8, 1880-87, plates published separately and numbered I-LXXXIII.