Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia A concise, yet thorough study of early Mesopotamia before c.1500 BC. Mesopotamia was a leading centre for literacy and spear-headed innovation and change in the 3rd-2nd millennium BC. The…
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Mesopotamia
A concise, yet thorough study of early Mesopotamia before c.1500 BC. Mesopotamia was a leading centre for literacy and spear-headed innovation and change in the 3rd-2nd millennium BC. The history of this area of modern-day Syria and Iraq and the people that inhabited it are discussed alongside some wonderful photographs of objects from the British Museum collection.
Julian Reade discusses the archaeological and textual evidence for early agriculture, the development of social and political complexity, the emergence of the city-states and later