Babylonians and Assyrians
Author | : Archibald Henry Sayce |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Assyria |
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Author | : Archibald Henry Sayce |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Assyria |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Archibald Henry Sayce |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Assyria |
ISBN | : |
Color photographs of letters, numbers, coins, and common objects introduce the alphabet, coinage, and the counting system.
Author | : A. H. Sayce |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2022-09-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Georges Contenau |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
"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
Author | : E. A. Wallis Budge |
Publisher | : Cosimo, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2006-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1596052287 |
The following pages have been written with the view of offering to the Bible student, in a small compass, a little of the history of Babylon, her thought, religion, and manners, and consequently the means whereby he may understand better some of the allusions of the prophets and Bible historians.-from the Introduction Almost 6,000 years after the beginning of their great society, and 2,600 years after its collapse, the heritage handed us by the ancient Babylonians still runs like a shining thread through our global civilization today, a profound cultural gift recognized in the 19th-century as their cuneiform language was first translated.Here, one of the most prominent antiquarians of the Victorian era introduces us to both the secular reality and the spiritual worldview of these sophisticated early people, from their daily life - including aspects of their food, clothing, and furniture - to their religious traditions, their devotion to astrology, and their practice of magic.Drawing on primary and secondary sources uncovered by the archaeology of the era, this is an important volume for students of mythology, religion, history, and historical research. SIR E.A. BUDGE (1857-1934) was curator of Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities at the British Museum form 1894 to 1924. Among his many works of translation and studies of ancient Egyptian religion and ritual is his best-known project, The Egyptian Book of the Dead.
Author | : H. W. F. Saggs |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520202221 |
Babylon stands with Athens and Rome as a cultural ancestor of western civilization. It was founded by the people of ancient Mesopotamia, who settled in the fertile crescent between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers before the fourth millennium b.c. Some of the earliest experiments in agriculture and irrigation, the invention of writing, the birth of mathematics and the development of urban life all began there. Biblical associations are also numerous, from Nineveh to the Tower of Babel and the Flood. In Babylonians, H. W. F. Saggs describes the ebb and flow in the successive fortunes of the Sumerians, Akkadians, Amorites, and Babylonians who flourished in this region. Using evidence from pottery, cuneiform tablets, cylinder seals, early architecture and metallurgy, he illuminates the myths, religion, languages, trade, politics, and warfare--as well as the legacy--of the Babylonians and their predecessors. During the twentieth century, collaboration by archaeologists from many nations has greatly increased the range of archaeological evidence, while work by linguists has gradually unlocked the secrets of the thousands of clay tablets recovered from the area. Today the historical record for some periods of ancient Mesopotamia is substantially better than for some centuries of Europe in the Christian era. Gaps and uncertainties remain, but Babylonians conveys a rich and fascinating picture of the development of this remarkable civilization from before the beginning of the third millennium b.c.
Author | : Arthur Cotterell |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1787383474 |
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.
Author | : George Stephen Goodspeed |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Assyria |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Daniel David Luckenbill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Akkadian language |
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