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A concise, yet thorough study of early Mesopotamia before c.1500 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. Mesopotamia was a leading centre for literacy and spear-headed innovation and change in the 3rd-2nd millennium BC. 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 empires.
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3 editions- Other · English · 2000Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Press · 96 pages · 9780714121819
- Other · English · 1991Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Press · 72 pages · 9780714120782
- Other · English · 1991Harvard University Press · 72 pages · 9780674569584
AntiquitiesCivilizationCivilization, Assyro-BabylonianIraq, history, to 634HistoryAncient ArtBritish MuseumRoman Art