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.
Explore the Intense History of the Assyrians. The ancient masters of war and conquest became the most powerful force in the Near East thousands of years ago. One of the first empires in world history.
" The story of Mesopotamia is one that is full of constantly changing borders, rising and falling civilizations, and, of course, war and conquest.
State Archives of Assyria Bulletin 15: 147–60. ... 'Hanigalbat' in Early NeoAssyrian Royal Inscriptions: A Retrospective View. ... In A. R. George, ed., Cuneiform Royal Inscriptions and Related Texts in the Schoyen Collection.
Inventing Empire in Ancient Mesopotamia Benjamin R. Foster. Eckart Frahm and Daniel Potts read portions of the manuscript and saved me from various mistakes and omissions. Aage Westenholz read the whole amid other more pressing tasks ...
Drawing on 30 years of scholarship, this is a unique, richly illustrated history of the Ancient Assyrian Army and Empire.
Based on fifteen years of research, this book provides a novel military and strategic perspective on the crises and conflicts that have shaped the current world order.
There is, on carefully drawn maps of Mesopotamia, a pale undulating line (considerably to the north of the city of Accad or Agade), which cuts across the valley of the two rivers, from Is or Hit on the Euphrates, - the place famous for its ...
Cf. R. Labat , Traité akkadien de diagnostics et pronostics médicaux , 2 vols . ( Paris , 1951 ) ; Hunger and von Weiher offer numerous supplements to this work . 36. Cf. Vogel , 37ff . 37. Vogel ( with 164 THE ANCIENT ORIENT.
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.