Author : Kim Benzel
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 11,81 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Art, Ancient
ISBN : 1588393585
"Provides the cultural, archaeological, and historical contexts for a selection of thirty works of art in the Metropolitan Museum's collection"--Slipcase.
Author : William H. Stiebing Jr.
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 42,34 MB
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1000880664
Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture offers an historical overview of the civilizations of the ancient Near East spanning ten thousand years of history. This new edition is a comprehensive introduction to the history and culture of the Near East, from prehistory and the beginnings of farming to the fall of Achaemenid Persia. Through text, images, maps, and historical documents, readers discover the material, social, and political world of cultures from Egypt to India, allowing students to see how these intertwined cultures interacted throughout history. Now fully updated and incorporating the latest scholarship on society, religion, and the economy, this book highlights the changing fortunes of these great civilizations. A special feature of this book is its many "Debating the Evidence" sections, where the reader becomes familiar with scholarly disputes concerning the interpretation of textual and archaeological evidence on a variety of topics and case studies. The fourth edition of Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture remains a crucial textbook for undergraduates and general readers studying the ancient Near East, particularly the political and social history of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, as well as students of archaeology and biblical studies who are working on the region.
Author : Asko Parpola
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 37,6 MB
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521795661
Of the writing systems of the ancient world which still await deciphering, the Indus script is the most important. It developed in the Indus or Harappan Civilization, which flourished c. 2500-1900 BC in and around modern Pakistan, collapsing before the earliest historical records of South Asia were composed. Nearly 4,000 samples of the writing survive, mainly on stamp seals and amulets, but no translations. Professor Parpola is the chief editor of the Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions. His ideas about the script, the linguistic affinity of the Harappan language, and the nature of the Indus religion are informed by a remarkable command of Aryan, Dravidian, and Mesopotamian sources, archaeological materials, and linguistic methodology. His fascinating study confirms that the Indus script was logo-syllabic, and that the Indus language belonged to the Dravidian family.
Author : Marta Ameri
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 39,44 MB
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1108173519
Studies of seals and sealing practices have traditionally investigated aspects of social, political, economic, and ideological systems in ancient societies throughout the Old World. Previously, scholarship has focused on description and documentation, chronology and dynastic histories, administrative function, iconography, and style. More recent studies have emphasized context, production and use, and increasingly, identity, gender, and the social lives of seals, their users, and the artisans who produced them. Using several methodological and theoretical perspectives, this volume presents up-to-date research on seals that is comparative in scope and focus. The cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach advances our understanding of the significance of an important class of material culture of the ancient world. The volume will serve as an essential resource for scholars, students, and others interested in glyptic studies, seal production and use, and sealing practices in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Ancient South Asia and the Aegean during the 4th-2nd Millennia BCE.
Author : E.A. Slater
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 15,95 MB
Release : 2005-10-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567236129
This book honors the significant and enduring work of Old Testament scholar Alan Millard. The contributors to this festschrift take up all of his concerns with the relationship between writing, the development and Israel, and ancient Near Eastern society.
Author : Richard Kern
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 13,6 MB
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 1107036488
Language, Literacy, and Technology explores how technology matters to language and the ways we use it.
Author : D. Wengrow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 35,55 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 0199699429
A vivid new account of the 'birth of civilization' in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia where many of the foundations of modern life were laid
Author : William H. Stiebing Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,64 MB
Release : 2016-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1315511169
This introduction to the Ancient Near East includes coverage of Egypt and a balance of political, social, and cultural coverage. Organized by the periods, kingdoms, and empires generally used in Near Eastern political history, the text interlaces social and cultural history with the political narrative. This combination allows students to get a rounded introduction to the subject of Ancient Near Eastern history. An emphasis on problems and areas of uncertainty helps students understand how evidence is used to create interpretations and allows them to realize that several different interpretations of the same evidence are possible.This introduction to the Ancient Near East includes coverage of Egypt and a balance of political, social, and cultural coverage.
Author : Bryan K. Wells
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 49,97 MB
Release : 2015-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1784910473
A detailed examination of the Indus script. It presents new analysis based on an expansive text corpus using revolutionary analytical techniques developed specifically for the purpose of deciphering the Indus script.
Author : Rita P. Wright
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 23,98 MB
Release : 2009-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521572194
This early civilization was erased from human memory until 1924, when it was rediscovered and announced in the Illustrated London Times. Our understanding of the Indus has been partially advanced by textual sources from Mesopotamia that contain references to Meluhha, a land identified by cuneiform specialists as the Indus, with which the ancient Mesopotamians traded and engaged in battles. In this volume, Rita P. Wright uses both Mesopotamian texts but principally the results of archaeological excavations and surveys to draw a rich account of the Indus civilization's well-planned cities, its sophisticated alterations to the landscape, and the complexities of its agrarian and craft-producing economy. She focuses principally on the social networks established between city and rural communities; farmers, pastoralists, and craft producers; and Indus merchants and traders and the symbolic imagery that the civilization shared with contemporary cultures in Iran, Mesopotamia, Central Asia, and the Persian Gulf region. Broadly comparative, her study emphasizes the interconnected nature of early societies.
