These essays represent a summation of Piotr Steinkeller's decades-long thinking and writing
about the history of third millennium BCE Babylonia and the ways in which it is reflected in …

Late Babylonian intellectual life is known from thousands of cuneiform texts dating between
the eighth and first centuries BC and unearthed in the libraries of palaces, temples and …

THE NED-BABYLONIAN CHRONICLES1 have been ranked among the finest examples of
historical writing in Mesopotamia and the ancient Near East. 2 Slightly antedating the …

The present monograph was submitted originally as a doctoral dissertation to the
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University in May 1996 …

In first millennium bc Babylonia, scribes compiled records of noteworthy events that
happened in their own lifetimes and earlier in the past. The “Babylonian Chronicles” have …

Ancient Mesopotamia, the fertile crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is
now western Iraq and eastern Syria, is considered to be the cradle of civilization—home of …

Provides a new narrative history of the ancient world, from the beginnings of civilization in
the ancient Near East and Egypt to the fall of Constantinople Written by an expert in the field …

The remains of ancient societies often require decades to unearth, but much longer to
interpret and understand. The methods of archaeology have progressed dramatically in …

The Neo-Babylonian empire spanned the period from the accession of Nabopolassar in 626
BC to the conquest of Babylonia and the defeat of its last native ruler, Nabonidus (555–539 …

Every history of ancient Mesopotamia devotes a lot of attention to its international contacts,
be they of a military or a peaceful nature. War and trade, two activities we often find …