Atlas Of Ancient Near East

Author : Trevor Bryce,Jessie Birkett-Rees
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317562108

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Atlas of the Ancient Near East by Trevor Bryce,Jessie Birkett-Rees Pdf

This atlas provides students and scholars with a broad range of information on the development of the Ancient Near East from prehistoric times through the beginning of written records in the Near East (c. 3000 BC) to the late Roman Empire and the rise of Islam. The geographical coverage of the Atlas extends from the Aegean coast of Anatolia in the west through Iran and Afghanistan to the east, and from the Black and Caspian Seas in the north to Arabia and the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean in the south. The Atlas of the Ancient Near East includes a wide-ranging overview of the civilizations and kingdoms discussed, written in a lively and engaging style, which considers not only political and military issues but also introduces the reader to social and cultural topics such as trade, religion, how people were educated and entertained, and much more. With a comprehensive series of detailed maps, supported by the authors’ commentary and illustrations of major sites and key artifacts, this title is an invaluable resource for students who wish to understand the fascinating cultures of the Ancient Near East.

Author : Michael Roaf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Iraq
ISBN : 0816022186

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Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East by Michael Roaf Pdf

Author : Trevor Bryce
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 1315734818

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Atlas of the Ancient Near East by Trevor Bryce Pdf

This atlas provides students and scholars with a broad range of information on the development of the Ancient Near East from prehistoric times through the beginning of written records in the Near East (c. 3000 BC) to the late Roman Empire and the rise of Islam. The geographical coverage of the Atlas extends from the Aegean coast of Anatolia in the west through Iran and Afghanistan to the east, and from the Black and Caspian Seas in the north to Arabia and the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean in the south. The Atlas of the Ancient Near East includes a wide-ranging overview of the civilizations and kingdoms discussed, written in a lively and engaging style, which considers not only political and military issues but also introduces the reader to social and cultural topics such as trade, religion, how people were educated and entertained, and much more. With a comprehensive series of detailed maps, supported by the authors' commentary and illustrations of major sites and key artifacts, this title is an invaluable resource for students who wish to understand the fascinating cultures of the Ancient Near East.

Author : Michael Roaf
Publisher : Checkmark Books
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0816022186

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Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East by Michael Roaf Pdf

Surveys the history and development of Mesopotamian and Near Eastern civilization, describing the cultural, technological, political, and economic achievements of the different peoples living there

Author : Michael Roaf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Iraq
ISBN : UVA:X030267405

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Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East by Michael Roaf Pdf

Maps on lining papers and bibliography.

Author : N. Postgate
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0415008395

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Atlas of Ancient Near East by N. Postgate Pdf

Author : Norman Bancroft-Hunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0816057303

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Historical Atlas of Ancient Mesopotamia by Norman Bancroft-Hunt Pdf

Uses maps, text, and illustrations to present the history of the area known as the Fertile Crescent, the Ancient Near East, and Mesopotamia, from its earliest period in the fifth millennium B.C.E. through the Sassanian Empire.

Author : Richard E. Averbeck,Mark William Chavalas,David B. Weisberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015056436051

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Life and Culture in the Ancient Near East by Richard E. Averbeck,Mark William Chavalas,David B. Weisberg Pdf

Author : Amanda H. Podany
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195377996

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The Ancient Near East: A Very Short Introduction by Amanda H. Podany Pdf

This book explores the lands of the ancient Near East from around 3200 BCE to 539 BCE. The earth-shaking changes that marked this era include such fundamental inventions as the wheel and the plow and intellectual feats such as the inventions of astronomy, law, and diplomacy.

Author : Thomas V. Brisco
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433670312

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Holman Bible Atlas by Thomas V. Brisco Pdf

The Holman Bible Atlas offers a visual feast through which the reader can explore the world of the Bible. Utilizing 140 full color maps key to biblical events and 140 full color photographs illustrating the land, sites, and archaeology of the biblical world, the Atlas draws the reader into the biblical story.The Holman Bible Atlas begins with an introduction to the geography of the biblical world emphasizing the major physical features of the Ancient Near East with special attention given to the geographical regions of Palestine. Information about daily life and the role of archaeology in recovering ancient cultures are discussed.

Author : Robert Morkot
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0140513353

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The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece by Robert Morkot Pdf

The cradle of Western civilisation, Ancient Greece was a land of contradictions and conflict. Intensely quarrelsome and competitive, the Greek city-states consistently proved unwilling and unable to unite. Yet, in spite of or even because of this internal discord, no ancient civilization proved so dynamic or productive. The Greeks not only colonized the Mediterranean and Black Sea areas but set standards of figurative art that endured for nearly 2500 years. Charting topics as diverse as Minoan civilization, The Persian Wars, the Athenian Golden Age and the conquests of Alexander the Great, the book traces the development of this creative and restless people and assesses their impact not only on the ancient world but also on our own attitudes and environment. The authoritative narrative, illustrated with over sixty full colour maps and over seventy plates, makes this an indispensable handbook for history students and enthusiasts alike.

Author : Richard J. A. Talbert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226789408

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Ancient Perspectives by Richard J. A. Talbert Pdf

Ancient Perspectives encompasses a vast arc of space and time—Western Asia to North Africa and Europe from the third millennium BCE to the fifth century CE—to explore mapmaking and worldviews in the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. In each society, maps served as critical economic, political, and personal tools, but there was little consistency in how and why they were made. Much like today, maps in antiquity meant very different things to different people. Ancient Perspectives presents an ambitious, fresh overview of cartography and its uses. The seven chapters range from broad-based analyses of mapping in Mesopotamia and Egypt to a close focus on Ptolemy’s ideas for drawing a world map based on the theories of his Greek predecessors at Alexandria. The remarkable accuracy of Mesopotamian city-plans is revealed, as is the creation of maps by Romans to support the proud claim that their emperor’s rule was global in its reach. By probing the instruments and techniques of both Greek and Roman surveyors, one chapter seeks to uncover how their extraordinary planning of roads, aqueducts, and tunnels was achieved. Even though none of these civilizations devised the means to measure time or distance with precision, they still conceptualized their surroundings, natural and man-made, near and far, and felt the urge to record them by inventive means that this absorbing volume reinterprets and compares.

Author : Martti Nissinen,Robert Kriech Ritner,Choon Leong Seow
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781589830271

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Prophets and Prophecy in the Ancient Near East by Martti Nissinen,Robert Kriech Ritner,Choon Leong Seow Pdf

Prophecy was a widespread phenomenon, not only in ancient Israel but in the ancient Near East as a whole. This is the first book to gather the available ancient Near Eastern, extra-biblical sources containing prophetic words or references to prophetic activities. Among the 140 texts included in this volume are oracles of prophets, personal letters, formal inscriptions, and administrative documents from ancient Mesopotamia and Levant from the second and first millennia B.C.E. Most of the texts come from Mari and Assyria. In addition, the volume provides new translations of the relevant section of the Egyptian Report of Wenamon, by Robert K. Ritner, and of various texts from Syria-Palestine containing allusions to prophets and prophetic activities, by C.L. Seow. By collecting and presenting evidence of the activities of prophets and the phenomenon of prophecy from all over the ancient Near East, the volume illumines the cultural background of biblical prophecy and its parallels. It provides scholars of the history, religions, and cultural traditions of the ancient Near East with important information about different types and forms of transmissions of divine words, and makes these valuable primary source materials accessible to students and general readers in contemporary English along with transcriptions of the original languages, indexes, and extensive bibliography.

Author : Zainab Bahrani
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Art
ISBN : 0500292752

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Art of Mesopotamia by Zainab Bahrani Pdf

This expert guide to the art of Mesopotamia, spanning more than 8000 years, is especially important as this ancient cultural legacy is threatened by contemporary conflict

Author : John Haywood
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015062902435

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The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Civilizations by John Haywood Pdf

The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Civilizations explores the world's earliest cultures, from the farming settlements of Mesopotamia to the Americas and Polynesia, via the birth of Greek city states and the foundation of Rome. It examines the development of civilizations in the Near East - Babylonian, Assyrian, Persian - as well as those in Europe - the Minoans, Etruscans and Celts. Across the continents of Africa, Asia and America, it covers such subjects as Egypt from its pre-dynastic roots to the age of the Pharaohs, China during the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and the great cities of the Incas and Aztecs. Vivid descriptions of civilizations are complemented by discussion of such key topics as colonization, agriculture and technology, and the rise of empires and city states. Richly illustrated with timelines, photographs, artwork re-creations and full-colour maps, this is an illuminating and multi-faceted one-volume introduction to early peoples and the worlds they created. - Back cover.