Author: Daniel David LuckenbillPublisher:
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Category : Akkadian language
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia
Author: Daniel David LuckenbillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Akkadian language
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Myths & Legends of Babylonia & Assyria
Author: Lewis SpencePublisher:
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Category : Assyro-Babylonian religion
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
A collection of Babylonian and Assyrian myths and legends, including various analogues of the biblical flood story and discussions of the history of Babylon and Assyria, and descriptions of various forms of Babylonian worship, Assyrian cults, and archaeological excavation of Babylonian and Assyrian sites.
The First Great Powers
Author: Arthur CotterellPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1787383474
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The rediscovery of Babylon and Assyria in the 1840s transformed Western views on the origins of civilisation. The excavation of Nineveh proved that even the Greeks, Romans and Egyptians together did not constitute the ancient world. These peoples had nothing to do with the beginnings of civilisation on Earth. It was in Mesopotamia that humanity took the first steps on its path towards the society we know today. The Sumerians inaugurated civilisation itself, but it was the Babylonians and then the Assyrians who fulfilled its potential. Their early experiments in state formation remain fascinating to us today: just like our governments, for a thousand years Babylon and Assyria grappled with the challenges of organising central power, administering distant territories, and engineering social harmony in empires and their cities. These achievements form one of the momentous episodes in human history; the Mesopotamian invention of writing revolutionised our minds and increased our intellectual possibilities a hundredfold. The First Great Powers is a revelation: of kingship, warfare, society and religion. Here at last we can discover what it meant to be an ancient Mesopotamian living in such an extraordinary world.
A History of Babylonia and Assyria
Author: Robert William RogersPublisher:
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Category : Assyria
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Everyday Life in Babylon and Assyria
Author: Georges ContenauPublisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
"The author of this book is one of the leading Assyriologists of our time, and his mastery of his subject is evident throughout." --Arnold Toynbee, The Observer
A History of Babylonia and Assyria
Author: Robert William RogersPublisher:
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Category : Akkadian language
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
A Commentary on the Cuneiform Inscriptions of Babylonia and Assyria
Author: Sir Henry Creswicke RawlinsonPublisher:
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Category : Akkadian language
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria
Author: Donald A. MackenziePublisher: Masterlab
ISBN: 837991161X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
This volume deals with the myths and legends of Babylonia and Assyria, and as these reflect the civilization in which they developed, a historical narrative has been provided, beginning with the early Sumerian Age and concluding with the periods of the Persian and Grecian Empires. Over thirty centuries of human progress are thus passed under review. Keywords: myth, legend, ancient, religion, classic
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
Author: Theophilus Goldridge PinchesPublisher:
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Category : Assyro-Babylonian religion
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles
Author: Albert Kirk GraysonPublisher: Eisenbrauns
ISBN: 9781575060491
Category : Akkadian language
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Originally published: Locust Valley, N.Y.: J. J. Augustin, 1975.