Civilizations of ancient Iraq

1. Verfasser: Foster, Benjamin R. (Benjamin Read)
Weitere Verfasser: Foster, Karen Polinger 1950-
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2009.
Umfang/Format: XII, 297 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780691137223
Schlagworte:
Inhaltsangabe:
  • List of illustrations
  • Preface
  • In the beginning of Tigris and Euphrates
  • the birthplace of civilization
  • Early city-states
  • Kings of the four quarters of the world
  • The age of Hammurabi
  • Babylonia in the family of nations
  • The Assyrian achievement
  • The glory of Babylon
  • Mesopotamia between two worlds
  • Sassanian Iraq
  • Epilogue: discovery and destruction of ancient Iraq.