This groundbreaking, five-Volume series offers a comprehensive, fully illustrated History of Egypt and Western Asia (the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Iran), from the emergence of complex states to the conquest of Alexander the Great.
This Volume offers new and complementary perspectives on the History of northeastern Africa, the eastern Mediterranean, and the Middle East from the 11th to the 7th century BC..
Several of the chapters discuss the challenges of reconstructing the sequence of local rulers and the various sources and diverse strategies harnessed in order to overcome these difficulties, notably for Egypt, for Elam, for Urartu and on northern Syria and southeastern Anatolia.
Fifteen chapters present the History of the Near East during The Age of Assyria, from the formative period of the Assyrian Empire to this influential state\'s disintegration. 1100-600 BC, corresponding with Egypt\'s Third Intermediate Period.
The fourth Volume of the Oxford History of the Ancient Near East covers the period from the end of the second to the middle of the first millennium BC, ca.
Individual chapters present the key textual and material sources underpinning the historical reconstruction, paying particular attention to the most recent archaeological finds and their impact on our historical understanding of the periods surveyed.
Written by a diverse, international team of leading scholars whose expertise brings to life the people, places, and times of the remote past, the volumes in this series focus firmly on the political and social histories of the states and communities of the Ancient Near East.
This groundbreaking, five-Volume series offers a comprehensive, fully illustrated History of Egypt and Western Asia (the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Iran), from the emergence of complex states to the conquest of Alexander the Great
