Handbook to Life in Ancient MesopotamiaBertman examines the succession of civilizations that flourished in ancient Mesopotamia from 3500 to 500 B.C.E.; Sumer, Babylonia, and Assyria. |
Contents
Archaeology and History | 39 |
Government and Society | 61 |
Religion and Myth | 113 |
Language Writing and Literature | 137 |
Architecture and Engineering | 185 |
Sculpture and Other Arts | 213 |
Economy | 243 |
Transportation and Trade | 251 |
Military Affairs | 261 |
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Akkad Akkadian ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA Ancient Near East archaeologist army Ashur Ashurbanipal Assyrian Assyrian king Babylon Babylonia and Assyria Babylonian became Bible biblical Bilgames brick British Museum century B.C.E. civilization clay Code cultural cuneiform cylinder seals death deity divine Dumuzi Dynasty edited by J. M. Egypt empire enemy Enkidu Enlil Epic Ereshkigal Eridu Eshnunna Euphrates excavations father flood Gilgamesh goddess gods Greek Hammurabi HANDBOOK Hebrew Herodotus human Hurrian Inanna inscriptions Iraq Ishtar Isin J. M. Sasson Kalhu Kassite Kramer Lagash land language Larsa later Layard literature Marduk Mari miles military myth Nabu netherworld Nimrud Nineveh Ninurta Nippur once Oxford palace Persian priestess priests reign river Roman royal ruins ruler Sargon scribes sculpture Semitic Shamash society southern Mesopotamia statues stone story Sumer Sumerian survive tablets Tell temple texts third millennium B.C.E. throne tion University Press Uruk walls writing York ziggurat