Empires Of The Plain Henry Rawlinson And The Lost Languages Of Babylon Text Only

Author : Lesley Adkins
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312330022
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empires of the Plain written by Lesley Adkins and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-12-13 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the life of nineteenth-century archaeologist and explorer Henry Rawlinson, describing his ascent of western Iran mountains, where he deciphered ancient carvings that were key to understanding cuneiform scripts and languages.

Author : Lesley Adkins
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007452373
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empires of the Plain: Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon (Text Only) written by Lesley Adkins and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How 19th-century soldier, adventurer and scholar Henry Rawlinson deciphered cuneiform, the world’s earliest writing, and rediscovered Iraq's ancient civilisations.

Author : Brian M. Fagan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Return to Babylon written by Brian M. Fagan and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of archaeological travel and excavation in Iraq -- then Mesopotamia -- from the time of the great Arab geographers to the 2003 devastation of the Iraq National Museum. Fagan tells of Henry Rawlinson, Jules Oppert, and Edward Hincks, decipherers of cuneiform; Claudius and Mary Rich, observers of Nineveh and Babylon; and Émile Botta and Austen Henry Layard, who revealed the Assyrian civilisation to an astonished world. Here, also, are men like Hormuzd Rassam, whose illegal digging and plundering horrified local officials, and Wallis Budge, consummate smuggler of cuneiform tablets. Fagan also recounts the careers of the multi-talented administrator Gertrude Bell, a primary influence in the creation of the nation of Iraq, and of Leonard Woolley, renowned for his excavation of Sumerian civilisation at Ur. Bringing this remarkable history up to date, Fagan chronicles the development of scientific archaeology in Mesopotamia, the growing Iraqi involvement in archaeology, and the tragic events of recent years that led to the looting of the Iraq National Museum and many archaeological sites.

Author : Paul Collins
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 178914423X
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sumerians written by Paul Collins and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sumerians are widely believed to have created the world’s earliest civilization on the fertile floodplains of southern Iraq from about 3500 to 2000 BCE. They have been credited with the invention of nothing less than cities, writing, and the wheel, and therefore hold an ancient mirror to our own urban, literate world. But is this picture correct? Paul Collins reveals how the idea of a Sumerian people was assembled from the archaeological and textual evidence uncovered in Iraq and Syria over the last one hundred fifty years. Reconstructed through the biases of those who unearthed them, the Sumerians were never simply lost and found, but reinvented a number of times, both in antiquity and in the more recent past.

Author : Thomas W. Gaehtgens
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606060171
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Getty Research Journal No. 2 written by Thomas W. Gaehtgens and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2010-04-05 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume in the annual publication that showcases the work of the Getty Research Institute. This annual publication showcases work by scholars and staff associated with the Getty Research Institute and the other programs of the prestigious J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Journal offers peer reviewed essays that focus on an object or aspect of the Getty's extensive archival, rare book, and artistic holdings or that relate to the annual research themes of the Research Institute and the Getty Villa. It also presents a selection of short, dynamic pieces about new acquisitions, scholarly activities, and ongoing projects at the Getty.

Author : Robert William Rogers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Babylonia and Assyria written by Robert William Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Samuel Noah Kramer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226452328
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sumerians written by Samuel Noah Kramer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-09-17 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second millenniums B.C. This book is an unparalleled compendium of what is known about them. Professor Kramer communicates his enthusiasm for his subject as he outlines the history of the Sumerian civilization and describes their cities, religion, literature, education, scientific achievements, social structure, and psychology. Finally, he considers the legacy of Sumer to the ancient and modern world. "There are few scholars in the world qualified to write such a book, and certainly Kramer is one of them. . . . One of the most valuable features of this book is the quantity of texts and fragments which are published for the first time in a form available to the general reader. For the layman the book provides a readable and up-to-date introduction to a most fascinating culture. For the specialist it presents a synthesis with which he may not agree but from which he will nonetheless derive stimulation."—American Journal of Archaeology "An uncontested authority on the civilization of Sumer, Professor Kramer writes with grace and urbanity."—Library Journal

Author : A. T. Olmstead
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226826333
Total Pages : 671 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Persian Empire written by A. T. Olmstead and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-08-29 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of a lifetime of study of the ancient Near East, Professor Olmstead has gathered previously unknown material into the story of the life, times, and thought of the Persians, told for the first time from the Persian rather than the traditional Greek point of view. "The fullest and most reliable presentation of the history of the Persian Empire in existence."—M. Rostovtzeff

Author : Sir Henry Rawlinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
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Download or read book England and Russia in the East written by Sir Henry Rawlinson and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 688 pages
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