Описание: On April 10, 2003, as the world watched a statue of Saddam Hussein come crashing down in the heart of Baghdad, a mob of looters attacked the Iraq National Museum. This book answers the complicated question of how this wholesale thievery was allowed to occur.
Автор: Haubold Название: Greece and Mesopotamia ISBN: 1107010764 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107010765 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 12291 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book proposes a new approach to the study of ancient Greek and Mesopotamian literature. Ranging from Homer and Gilgamesh to Herodotus and the Babylonian-Greek author Berossos, it paints a picture of two literary cultures that, over the course of time, became profoundly entwined. Along the way, the book addresses many questions of crucial importance to the student of the ancient world: how did the literature of Greece relate to that of its eastern neighbours? What did ancient readers from different cultures think it meant to be human? Who invented the writing of universal history as we know it? How did the Greeks come to divide the world into Greeks and 'barbarians', and what happened when they came to live alongside those 'barbarians' after the conquests of Alexander the Great? In addressing these questions, the book draws on cutting-edge research in comparative literature, postcolonial studies and archive theory.
Автор: Postgate, Nicholas Название: Early mesopotamia ISBN: 0415110327 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415110327 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6714 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The roots of our modern world lie in this early civilisation, which saw the first urban society and the invention of writing. Postgate uses both historical and archaeological data to reveal this society`s social and technological innovations.
Автор: Pollock, Susan Название: Ancient mesopotamia ISBN: 0521575680 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521575683 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4518 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Innovative study of the early state and urban societies in Mesopotamia, c. 5000 to 2100 BC.
Описание: Drawing on the work of modern economic geographers, the author explores how the unique river-based ecology and geography of the Tigris-Euphrates alluvium affected the development of urban civilization in southern Mesopotamia.
Описание: Provides a collection of English translations of mathematical texts from five important ancient and medieval non-Western mathematical cultures, and puts them into historical and mathematical context. This book is intended for mathematics teachers who want to use non-Western mathematical ideas in the classroom.
Описание: The Egyptologist Eric Peet (1882–1934), whose works on the prehistory of Italy and the cemeteries of Abydos are also reissued in this series, published this book, based on a series of three lectures delivered at the British Academy in 1929 on ancient literature of the Near East, in 1931. It examines the claims of Egyptian and Babylonian literature - rediscovered less than a century earlier - to be considered as the influential forerunners of the Hebrew literature of the Old Testament, composed up to a millennium later, and, by this argument, not suddenly arising as an isolated phenomenon. As Peet remarks in his first lecture, his aim is to persuade Old Testament scholars that 'Egyptian literature is worthy of far more attention … than it has hitherto received'. Further work on ancient Egyptian grammar, and better translations as the texts become better understood, are, he believes, a prerequisite for useful comparative analysis.
Автор: Schwartz Название: Rural Archaeology In Early Urban Northern Mesopotamia ISBN: 1938770048 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781938770043 Издательство: Eurospan Рейтинг: Цена: 13651 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book presents the results of the extensive excavation of a small, rural village from the period of emerging cities in upper Mesopotamia (modern northeast Syria) in the early to middle third millennium BC.
Автор: Nissen Hans J., Heine Peter Название: From Mesopotamia to Iraq: A Concise History ISBN: 0226586642 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226586649 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 2541 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The reopening of Iraq`s National Museum attracted worldwide attention, underscoring the country`s dual image as both the cradle of civilization and a contemporary geopolitical battleground. This title looks back through ten thousand years of the region`s deeply significant yet increasingly overshadowed past.
Автор: Charvat, Petr Название: Mesopotamia before history ISBN: 0415487242 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415487245 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 8529 р. Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: Mesopotamia was one of the first areas to construct states. This survey of the region`s prehistory and protohistory shows how these developments were possible. It explores the economic, social and spiritual spheres in Mesopotamia from the Palaeolithic to the time of the early states, c 100,000 BC to 2334 BC.
Название: Myths from mesopotamia ISBN: 0199538360 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199538362 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 1625 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The ancient civilization of Mesopotamia thrived between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates over 4,000 years ago. The myths collected here, originally written in cuneiform on clay tablets, include parallels with the biblical stories of the Creation and the Flood, and the famous Epic of Gilgamesh, the tale of a man of great strength, whose heroic quest for immortality is dashed through one moment of weakness. Recent developments in Akkadian grammar and lexicography mean that this new translation, complete with notes, a glossary of deities, place-names, and key terms, and illustrations of the mythical monsters featured in the text, will replace all other versions.
Описание: The surgeon William Ainsworth (1807–96) acted as the geologist of the 1835 Euphrates Expedition, his account of which is also reissued in this series. Great interest was aroused by the scientific and archaeological findings of that journey, and the Royal Geographical Society helped to fund a further expedition, ostensibly to make contact with the Nestorian Christians of the region, but covertly to make further mineralogical investigations. Ainsworth was the leader of the expedition, and his two-volume account was published in 1842. Starting from Istanbul in 1839, he took a route through Asia Minor, northern Syria, Kurdistan, Persia and Armenia, returning to Istanbul in 1840. The expedition was not regarded as a success, as Ainsworth had massively overspent the budget originally allotted by the sponsors, and his secret activities were discovered by the Ottoman authorities, but the work remains a vivid account of the area.
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