1st Edition
People of Ancient Assyria Their Inscriptions and Correspondence
By Jørgen Læssøe
Copyright 2015
192 Pages
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Routledge
208 Pages
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Routledge
208 Pages
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Routledge
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Was Assyria merely a more brutal, more uncivilized and less interesting offshoot of the culture created by Sumerians and Babylonians in Southern Mesopotamia at the dawn of history? Do the Assyrian reliefs that fill our museums give a complete picture of the phenomenon that was Assyria? Was the contribution of this people to world culture merely an incredibly effective military organization? The... Read more
Foreword. Introduction 1. The Written Sources 2. Continuity and Change in Mesopotamia 3. The Phenomenon that was Assyria 4. Assyrians and Hurrians in the Zagros 5. Assyrian Historiography
Biography
Læssøe, Jørgen
