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Cambridge Ancient History: Plates to Volumes 1 and 2. 2nd Edition. Hardback
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  • Cambridge Ancient History: Plates to Volumes 1 and 2. 2nd Edition. Hardback
  • Edited by I. E. S. Edwards, C. J. Gadd, N. G. L. Hammond, E. Sollberger
  • 223 pages. 1977, 1989, 1995. A new Plates Volume to accompany the four Parts of The Cambridge Ancient History, Volumes I and II. Reduced price, was E112,00

Canby: The Ur-Nammu Stela. Hardcover
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  • Ur-Nammu Stela. Hardcover
  • by Jeanny Vorys Canby
  • 144 (various pagings), 126 illustrations. 2001. Ur-Nammu was king of Ur in ancient Mesopotamia (southern Iraq) around 2000 BC. In 1925 a joint expedition from the University of Pennsylvania Museum and The British Museum discovered dozens of fragments of a monument in honor of Ur-Nammu. This book includes the justification of the reconstructions, description of the scenes and speculation on the ancient fate of the stela.

Cantor: Antiquity: From the Birth of Sumerian Civilization to the Fall of the Roman Empire. Paperback
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  • Antiquity: From the Birth of Sumerian Civilization to the Fall of the Roman Empire. Paperback
  • by Norman F. Cantor
  • xiii, 240 pages. 2004

Carnie: Syntax: A Generative Introduction. Paperback
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  • Syntax: A Generative Introduction
  • Andrew Carnie 2006
  • Paperback, 512 pages, 3 illustrations, 248 x 174 mm
  • Building on the success of the bestselling first edition, the second edition of this textbook provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the major issues in Principles and Parameters syntactic theory, including phrase structure, the lexicon, case theory, movement, and locality conditions.
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Carroll: Earthly Paradises: Ancient Gardens in History and Archaeology. Hardbound
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  • Earthly Paradises: Ancient Gardens in History and Archaeology. Hardbound
  • by Maureen Carroll
  • 144 pages, 72 colour and 30 black-white illustrations. This title which brings together archaeological and literary evidence surrounding ancient gardens, also examines the tasks and role of gardeners, and assesses the evidence for various types of plants and trees, and for ancient horticultural practices.

Casson: Libraries in the Ancient World. Paperback
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  • Libraries in the Ancient World. Paperback
  • by Lionel Casson
  • 177 pages, with many illustrations. 2002. The story of Ancient libraries from their very beginnings, when "books" were clay tablets and writing was a new phenomenon. Lionel Casson explores the royal libraries of the Ancient Near East, the private and public libraries of Greece and Rome, and the first Christian monastic libraries

Charvat: Mesopotamia Before History. Hardback
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  • Mesopotamia Before History. Hardback
  • Petr Charvát
  • 304 pages, 72 line drawings, 44 photos. 2002. This comprehensive and detailed survey of the region's prehistory and protohistory shows how these fascinating developments were possible. Petr Charvát explores the economic, social and spiritual spheres in Mesopotamia from the Palaeolithic to the time of the early states, c. 100,000 BC to 2334 BC.

Charvat: Mesopotamia Before History. Paperback
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  • Mesopotamia Before History. Paperback
  • Petr Charvát
  • 304 pages, 72 line drawings and 44 photos. 2008. This comprehensive and detailed survey of the region's prehistory and protohistory shows how these fascinating developments were possible. Petr Charvát explores the economic, social and spiritual spheres in Mesopotamia from the Palaeolithic to the time of the early states, c. 100,000 BC to 2334 BC.

Cheneviere: Syrien. Wiege der Kultur. Gebunden
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  • Syrien. Wiege der Kultur. 29,5 cm. Gebunden
  • by Alain Chenevière
  • 190 Seiten, zahlreichen Farbfotos und 1 farbigen Übersichts-Karte. 1996. Seit frühgeschichtlicher Zeit war Syrien Schmelztiegel der Völker, Religionen und Kulturen: Assyrer und Ägypter, Perser und Phönizier, Griechen und Römer, Mongolen und Türken, fränkische Ritter und osmanische Statthalter kämpften um die Herrschaft in diesem Land voller Gegensätze.

Clifford: Wisdom Literature in Mesopotamia and Israel. Paperback
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  • Wisdom Literature in Mesopotamia and Israel. Paperback
  • edited by Richard J. Clifford
  • xiii, 116 pages. 2007

Cochavi-rainey: To the King My Lord: Letters from El-amarna, Kumidu, Taanach and Other Letters from the Fourteenth Centurey BCE. Paperback
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  • To the King My Lord: Letters from El-amarna, Kumidu, Taanach and Other Letters from the Fourteenth Centurey BCE. Paperback
    by Zippora Cochavi-rainey.     345 pages, 2005 (Text in hebrew language)

Cohen: Taboos and Prohibitions in Hittite Society: A Study of the Hittite Expression natta ara (‘not permitted’). Kartonniert
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  • Taboos and Prohibitions in Hittite Society. A Study of the Hittite Expression natta ara (‘not permitted’). Kartonniert
  • by Yoram Cohen
  • xvi, 198 Seiten. 2002. The subject of this book is the Hittite prohibitive expression, natta ara – ‘not allowed’, ‘not correct’. This expression prohibits over twenty different social behaviours.

Cohen: Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages. Paperback
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  • Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages. Paperback
  • Mark R. Cohen
  • National Jewish Honor Book in Jewish History. With a new introduction and afterword by the author. 320 pages. 2008. Did Muslims and Jews in the Middle Ages cohabit in a peaceful "interfaith utopia"? Or were Jews under Muslim rule persecuted, much as they were in Christian lands? Rejecting both polemically charged ideas as myths, Mark Cohen offers a systematic comparison of Jewish life in medieval Islam and Christendom

Coogan: The Oxford History of the Biblical World. Paperback
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  • Oxford History of the Biblical World. Paperback, 23x15cm
  • edited by Michael D. Coogan
  • xi, 487 pages, 24 maps, 8 half tone plates, 6 tables. 2001. Chronologically ordered, it is an authoritative synthesis written by leading scholars and incorporating the latest archeological discoveries and current methodologies.

Cooper: Early Urbanism on the Syrian Euphrates. Cloth
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  • Early Urbanism on the Syrian Euphrates. Cloth
  • Lisa Cooper. 336 pages. 2006. Studying archaeological evidence from sites, covering over 200 kilometres of the banks of the Euphrates River, Lisa Cooper's excellent monograph explores the growth and development of human settlement in the Euphrates River Valley of Northern Syria, during the Early and Middle Bronze Ages from circa 2700 to 1550 BC.

Cooper: Early Urbanism on the Syrian Euphrates. Paperback
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  • Early Urbanism on the Syrian Euphrates.
  • Lisa Cooper 2008.
  • Paperback, 336 pages, 3 black & white tables, 27 black & white halftones, 54 black & white line drawings, 234 x 156 mm
  • Studying archaeological evidence from sites covering over 200 kilometres of the banks of the Euphrates River, Lisa Cooper's excellent monograph explores the growth and development of human settlement in the Euphrates River Valley of Northern Syria during the Early and Middle Bronze Ages from circa 2700 to 1550 BC.

 
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Coulmas: The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems. Pb
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  • The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems
  • Florian Coulmas 1999
  • Paperback, 640 pages, 253 x 179 mm
  • This is an encyclopedia of writing systems, scripts and orthographies of all the worlda s major languages, past and present. It provides both a fully illustrated description of over 400 writing systems and an account of the study of writing in many different disciplines, from anthropology to psychology.
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Crawford: Sumer and the Sumerians. 2nd Edition. Paperback
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  • Sumer and the Sumerians. 2nd Edition. Paperback. By Harriet Crawford
  • 262 pages, 82 line diagrams, 5 half-tones, 9 maps. 2004. In this revised and expanded edition Crawford reviews the extraordinary social and technological developments in the region from 3800 to 2000 BC. The chapter on Manufacturing Industries and Trade has been enlarged and divided into two chapters. A new chapter on the contemporary developments in Upper Mesopotamia is included.

Csuk: SA.TA.AN der Herrschergott von Babylon. Die Geschichte der geheimnisvollen Stadt der Welt, ihrer Götter, ihrer Kultur und das Vermächtnis der Atlanter. Kartoniert
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  • SA.TA.AN der Herrschergott von Babylon. Die Geschichte der geheimnisvollen Stadt der Welt, ihrer Götter, ihrer Kultur und das Vermächtnis der Atlanter. Kartoniert
  • Josef A. Csuk. 246 Seiten. 2007. Die Geschichte der geheimnisvollsten Stadt der Welt, ihrer Götter, ihrer Kultur und das Vermächtnis der Atlanter.

Cuomo: Ancient Mathematics. Paperback
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  • Ancient Mathematics. Paperback
  • S. Cuomo
  • 304 pages, 44 line drawings, 7 photo's. 2001. The theorem of Pythagoras, Euclid's "Elements", Archimedes' method to find the volume of a sphere: all parts of the invaluable legacy of ancient mathematics. This book offers a survey of the discipline in all its variety and diversity of practices, from the fifth century BC to the sixth century AD

Currid: Ancient Egypt and the Old Testament. Paperback
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  • Ancient Egypt and the Old Testament. Paperback
  • John D. Currid. Foreword by Kenneth A. Kitchen
  • 269 pages, with 3 figures, 5 photographs, 3 maps, bibliography and index. 1997

Curtis: Ancient Persia. Revised edition
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  • Ancient Persia. Paperback. Revised edition. ca. 24x19cm
  • Curtis
  • 96 pages, 50 colour and 40 bw illustrations. In this 2nd revised edition, the author traces the history, archaeology and art from the growth of settled communities around 6000 BC to the beginning of the Islamic period in the seventh century AD. Illustrated throughout with examples drawn from the British Museum's collection

Curtis: Art and Empire. Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum
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  • Art and Empire. Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum. Paperback. 22x27cm
  • by Curtis & Reade, editor
  • 324 pages, with 215 colour and 33 black-white illustrations, map. 1995
  • A catalogue of some of the finest Assyrian artefacts in the British Museum, presenting a picture of one of the greatest civilizations of antiquity. The catalogue describes the excavation in the mid-19th century of over 250 items

Curtis: Forgotten Empire. The World of Ancient Persia. Paperback
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  • Forgotten Empire. The World of Ancient Persia. Paperback
  • Author J.E. Curtis
  • 224 pages, 300 illustrations, (250 in colour). 2005. Provides an insight into the wealth and splendour of Persian society - its rich palaces, exquisite craftsmanship and sophisticated learning. Remains from the royal sites of Susa and Persepolis provide a major focus in this illustrated catalogue. It includes sections on the expansion of the Persian Empire; arms and warfare; and trade and commerce

Dalley: Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others. Paperback
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  • Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others. A new translation. Paperback
  • by Stephanie Dalley
  • 360 pages, with 2 figures, glossary of deities, places and key terms, bibliography. 1998
  • This text presents translations of the main myths and epics written in Akkadian, including Creation myths and the epic of Gilgamesh.

Damrosch: The Buried Book: The Loss And Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh. Hardcover
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  • Buried Book: The Loss And Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh. Hardcover.
  • by David Damrosch
  • xi, 315 pages. 2007

Daniel: The First Civilizations. The Archaeology of Their Origins. New edition. Paperback
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  • First Civilizations. The Archaeology of Their Origins. New edition. Paperback
  • by Glyn Edmund Daniel
  • 208 pages, 79 illustrations, 13 maps. 2004. Francis Bacon alluded to remnants of history that have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. Glyn Daniel has analysed these remnants to describe the first civilizations that range from the earliest times of savagery to the Sumerians, Egyptians, Chinese and ancient Americans from around 4000 B.C. to 1500 A.D.

Davies, Rogerson: Old Testament World. Paperback
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  • Old Testament World.
  • Philip R. Davies and John  Rogerson
  • Paperback, x, 250 pages, 30 illustrations. 2nd edition 2005

Davis: The Middle East for Dummies. Paperback
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  • Dummies: Middle East for Dummies. Paperback
  • By Craig S. Davis
  • 408 pages. 2003. This plain-English guide explains the importance of the region, especially in light of recent events. You’ll meet its people and their leaders, discover the differences and similarities between Arab and Western mindsets, and examine the wars and conflicts that led up to the current political situation

Dodds, Menocal, Balbale: The Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture. Hardcover
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  • Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture. Hardcover
  • Jerrilynn D. Dodds, María Rosa Menocal, and Abigail Krasner Balbale. 395 pages. 200 color and 10 b/w illustrations. 2008
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Dommelen: Material Connections in the Ancient Mediterranean : Mobility, Materiality and Identity. Paperback
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  • Material Connections in the Ancient Mediterranean: Mobility, Materiality and Identity
  • Peter van Dommelen, A. Bernard Knapp 2010
  • Paperback, 272 pages, 2 black & white tables, 34 black & white halftones, 36 black & white line drawings, 234 x 156 mm
  • "Material Connections" eschews outdated theory, tainted by colonialist attitudes, and develops a new cultural and historical understanding of how factors such as mobility, materiality, conflict and co-presence impacted on the formation of identity in the ancient Mediterranean. Fighting against 'hyper-specialisation' within the subject area, it explores the multiple ways that material culture was used to establish, maintain and alter identities, especially during periods of transition, culture encounter and change. A new perspective is adopted, one that perceives the use of material culture by prehistoric and historic Mediterranean people in formulating and changing their identities.
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Dosch: Zur Struktur der Gesellschaft des Königsreichs Arraphe. Gebunden
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  • Zur Struktur der Gesellschaft des Königsreichs Arraphe. Gebunden
  • Gudrun Dosch
  • viii, 174 Seiten, mit Belegstellen und Sachindex. Heidelberger Studien zum Alten Orient. Band 5. 1993

Drews: The End of the Bronze Age. Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C. Paperback
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  • End of the Bronze Age. Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C.
  • Robert Drews. 252 pages, 10 plates. 1996. This text attempts to account for the destruction of key cities in the Mediterranean at the end of the Bronze Age, circa the 12th century BC. The author proposes a military explanation for the destruction of four important kingdoms at this time.

During: The Prehistory of Asia Minor: From Complex Hunter-Gatherers to Early Urban Societies. Pb
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  • The Prehistory of Asia Minor: From Complex Hunter-Gatherers to Early Urban Societies
  • Bleda S. Düring 2011
  • Paperback, 374 pages, 62 b/w illus., 253 x 215 mm
  • In this book, Bleda During offers an archaeological analysis of Asia Minor, the area equated with much of modern-day Turkey, from 20,000 to 2,000 BC. During this period human societies moved from small-scale hunter-gatherer groups to complex and hierarchical communities with economies based on agriculture and industry. Dr During traces the spread of the Neolithic way of life, which ultimately reached across Eurasia, and the emergence of key human developments, including the domestication of animals, metallurgy, fortified towns and long-distance trading networks.
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Eisele: Babylon. Götterpforte oder große Hure. Gebunden
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  • Babylon. Götterpforte oder große Hure. Gebunden
  • Petra Eisele
  • 368 Seiten. 2006. Eigentlich bedeutet der Name der Hauptstadt Babyloniens »Pforte der Götter«, doch die biblischen Propheten nannten sie die »Große Hure«. Sie war zu reich, zu groß und zu schön geworden, um nicht zugleich als verrucht und größenwahnsinnig zu erscheinen. Und sie führte große Kriege, besonders gegen die Ägypter wie in der berühmten Schlacht um die Stadt Karkemisch

Enheduanna: Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart: Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna
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  • Inanna, Lady of Largest Hear: Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna
  • by Enheduanna, Betty De Shong Meador
  • xviii, 225 pages. 2001

Ephrat: Spiritual Wayfarers, Leaders in Piety: Sufis and the Dissemination of Islam in Medieval Palestine. Paperback
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  • Spiritual Wayfarers, Leaders in Piety: Sufis and the Dissemination of Islam in Medieval Palestine. Paperback
  • by Daphna Ephrat. 223 pages, 7 illustrations, 2 maps, 1 table. 2008. This book represents the first continuous history of Sufism in Palestine. Covering the period between the rise of Islam and the spread of Ottoman rule and drawing on vast biographical material and complementary evidence, the book describes the social trajectory that Sufism followed.

Essential Histories 16 Bagnall: The Punic Wars 264 - 146 B.C.
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  • Punic Wars 264 - 146 B.C.
  • by Nigel Bagnall
  • 96 pages. The three Punic Wars which lasted nearly 100 years, from 264 BC to 146 BC, represented a struggle for supremacy in the Mediterranean between the bludgeoning land power of Rome bent on imperial conquest and the great maritime power of Carthage with its colonies and trading posts spread around the Mediterranean.