Babylonians - Rilegato

Saggs, H. W. F.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0806127651 ISBN 13: 9780806127651

Casa editrice: Univ of Oklahoma Pr, 1995

Riassunto

The people of ancient Mesopotamia, who settled in the 'fertile crescent' between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers before the fourth millennium BC, laid the foundations of Western civilization. Some of the earliest experiments in agriculture and irrigation, the invention of writing, the birth of mathematics and the development of urban life began there. Many fundamental developments in human society - from hunter-gatherer to farmer, from village to city-state - first occurred in this area. Biblical associations also are numerous, from Nineveh to the Tower of Babel and the Flood.
Professor H. W. F. Saggs describes the ebb and flow in the successive fortunes of the Sumerians, Akkadians, Amorites and Babylonians. Using evidence from pottery, cuneiform tablets, cylinder seals, early architecture and metallurgy, he illuminates the myths, religion, languages, trade, politics and warfare, as well as the legacy, of the Babylonians and their predecessors.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

H. W. F. Saggs is Professor Emeritus of Semitic Languages at University College, Cardiff.

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Book by Saggs H W F

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Oklahoma Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0806127651
• ISBN 13: 9780806127651
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida