Bøger om Assyrian Empires

The first comprehensive account of the rise and fall of what historians consider to be the world's very first empire: Assyria'A work of remarkable synthesis. The range of its sources is truly extraordinary . . . Frahm punctures a fair share of myths too' Pratinav Anil, The TimesAt its height in 660 BCE, the kingdom of Assyria stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. It was the first empire the world had ever seen. Here, historian Eckart Frahm tells the epic story of Assyria and its formative role in global history. Assyria's wide-ranging conquests have long been known from the Hebrew Bible and later Greek accounts. But nearly two centuries of research now permit a rich picture of the Assyrians and their empire beyond the battlefield: their vast libraries and monumental sculptures, their elaborate trade and information networks, and the crucial role played by royal women.Although Assyria was crushed by rising powers in the late seventh century BCE, its legacy endured from the Babylonian and Persian empires to Rome and beyond. Assyria is a stunning and authoritative account of a civilisation essential to understanding the ancient world and our own.

Forschungsarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Orientalistik / Sinologie - Sonstiges, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Forschungsarbeit untersucht die Getreideproduktion und Getreidedistribution in Nuzi nach den Texten aus dem Palast und präsentiert Überlegungen zu einer Neudatierung der Nuzi-Texte.Nach einer ausführlichen Behandlung der Flächen, Hohl- und Gewichtsmaße in Nuzi folgen eine inhaltliche Auswertung der Texte sowie die einschlägigen Texte in Umschrift nebst Erläuterungen. Nach einer prosopographischen Auswertung folgt ein Abschnitt, der aufgrund archäologischer und philologischer Indizien eine Umdatierung der Nuzi-Tafeln vorschlägt. Den Abschluss bildet ein ausführlicher Registerteil.

This book is the result of a workshop organized by the editors on April 5, 2018, during the 11th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE) in Munich, Germany.The workshop's goal was to discuss the archaeological traces, or lack thereof, of the so-called transitional periods in the long history of Northern Mesopotamia, from the Bronze Age to the Islamic period. What emerges from the contributions, which differ in terms of chronology, spatial extent, and research subject - from single sites to long term investigation, from material culture to historical approaches -, goes beyond the traditional approach to the Dark Ages, emphasizing phenomena of resilience and evolution, rather than drastic and abrupt changes. From the expansion and contraction of settlement patterns to the spatial redefinition of urban spaces and the persistence of certain ceramic horizons through time, the authors put back the material evidence on the agenda of the archaeological research on the Dark Ages.The book offers a unique view, although from different angles, of some of the in-between periods of Mesopotamian history: The Middle-Late Bronze transition, the so-called post-Assyrian period, the evolution of late antiquity material culture into the Islamic period. Thus, the authors aim at redefining the concept of transition in the light of new or revised data from fundamental projects in Syria, Iraq, and Iraqi Kurdistan.