Author: Archibald Henry Sayce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Assyria
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Color photographs of letters, numbers, coins, and common objects introduce the alphabet, coinage, and the counting system.
Babylonians and Assyrians
Author: Archibald Henry Sayce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Assyria
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Color photographs of letters, numbers, coins, and common objects introduce the alphabet, coinage, and the counting system.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Assyria
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Color photographs of letters, numbers, coins, and common objects introduce the alphabet, coinage, and the counting system.
The First Great Powers
Author: Arthur Cotterell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1787383474
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1787383474
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
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.
Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia
Author: Daniel David Luckenbill
Publisher:
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Category : Akkadian language
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Akkadian language
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Everyday Life in Babylon and Assyria
Author: Georges Contenau
Publisher: 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
Publisher: 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
Myths & Legends of Babylonia & Assyria
Author: Lewis Spence
Publisher:
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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.
Publisher:
ISBN:
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.
A History of Babylonia and Assyria
Author: Robert William Rogers
Publisher:
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Category : Assyria
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Assyria
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Mesopotamia
Author: Enrico Ascalone
Publisher: Dictionaries of Civilization
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Dictionaries of Civilization
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
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.
Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles
Author: Albert Kirk Grayson
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
ISBN: 9781575060491
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Originally published: Locust Valley, N.Y.: J. J. Augustin, 1975.
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
ISBN: 9781575060491
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Originally published: Locust Valley, N.Y.: J. J. Augustin, 1975.
Ancient Mesopotamia
Author: Virginia Schomp
Publisher: Children's Press(CT)
ISBN: 9780531167410
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Explores Sumerian, Babylonian, and Assyrian cultures, discussing social structure, lifestyles, and the military in these societies.
Publisher: Children's Press(CT)
ISBN: 9780531167410
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Explores Sumerian, Babylonian, and Assyrian cultures, discussing social structure, lifestyles, and the military in these societies.
A Commentary on the Cuneiform Inscriptions of Babylonia and Assyria
Author: Sir Henry Creswicke RAWLINSON
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Assyria
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Assyria
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description