Books for Ancient Near East Courses

Women in the Ancient Near East

A Sourcebook

Edited by Mark Chavalas

Series: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World

Women in the Ancient Near East provides a collection of primary sources from a broad range of Near Eastern civilizations, from the earliest historical and literary texts (c. 2700 BC) to the latest Hellenistic historians who comment on Near Eastern history (e.g., Berossus, c.205 BC). The book is a...

To Be Published July 29th 2013 by Routledge

The Persian Empire

A Corpus of Sources from the Achaemenid Period

By Amélie Kuhrt

The Achaemenid dynasty (550-330 BC) ruled over the first and largest 'world empire' in history: the Persian empire extended from the Babylonians in the east to the Jews and Greeks in the west, with fingers of control in the fringes of the Indian subcontinent and elsewhere. Its sheer size was a...

Published August 31st 2009 by Routledge

Ancient Turkey

By Antonio Sagona, Paul Zimansky

Series: Routledge World Archaeology

Students of antiquity often see ancient Turkey as a bewildering array of cultural complexes. Ancient Turkey brings together in a coherent account the diverse and often fragmented evidence, both archaeological and textual, that forms the basis of our knowledge of the development of Anatolia from the...

Published March 9th 2009 by Routledge

The Babylonian World

Edited by Gwendolyn Leick

Series: Routledge Worlds

The Babylonian World presents an extensive, up-to-date and lavishly illustrated history of the ancient state Babylonia and its 'holy city', Babylon. Historicized by the New Testament as a centre of decadence and corruption, Babylon and its surrounding region was in fact a rich and...

Published December 31st 2008 by Routledge