The Ancient Near East

Stories of People & Civilization

J K Jackson, Matthias Adelhofer

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flametree
01 July 2024

Myth & legend told as fiction; Religion & beliefs

Series: Stories of People and Civilization

Beautiful edition featuring the origins of modern Western Civilisation in the crescent of the middle east, just before the Ancient Egyptian culture.

A gorgeous Collector's Edition. Exploring the ancient origins of Sumer we find the beginnings of civilization as we know it now, with language, cities, religious conviction, organised society and a wealth of culture revealed in clay tablets collected in ancient libraries. Between the rivers of the Tigris and the Euphrates rose a powerful force just before the Ancient Egyptians and Chinese, later to be succeeded by Babylon, a powerful city state in 1800 BCE, a centre of spiritual, economic and military power that emerged just before the mighty Indus and Mycenean civilizations.

Hardback, Deluxe edition, foiled and embossed, with gilded edges

Introduction by: Matthias Adelhofer
General editor: J K Jackson
Imprint: flametree
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 168mm, Width: 110mm, Spine: 24mm
ISBN: 9781804176153
ISBN 10: 180417615X
Series: Stories of People and Civilization
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 01 July 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Matthias Adelhofer (introduction) is trained in Akkadian and Sumerian philology as well as Ancient Near Eastern archaeology. Currently, he is studying letters exchanged in the course of Old Assyrian long-distance trade. From the materiality, general epistolographic practices, and form to the modes of rhetoric used in the texts, he is investigating the social norms and mentalities present in the correspondence. He has also studied Neo-Babylonian economic archives and the social networks of the persons featuring in them. He is especially interested in social and economic history, linguistics, and palaeography.