This monumental book traces the origins and development of mathematics in the ancient
Middle East, from its earliest beginnings in the fourth millennium BCE to the end of …

In The Open Sea, JG Manning offers a major new history of economic life in the
Mediterranean world in the Iron Age, from Phoenician trading down to the Hellenistic era …

This study presents the famous city of Babylon in its latest phase of occupation: from the end
of the Achaemenid period (second half of the fourth century BC), during the reign of …

The Southern Levant was a thriving centre of religious and cultural exchange during the
Bronze Age.'Early Bronze Age Goods Exchange in the Southern Levant'provides an …

Using a compilation of monthly and annual wheat price data, this article examines the trend
of market development in Europe from the late medieval period to the industrial revolution. In …

This book is the synthesis of a research project 'On the efficiency of markets in pre-industrial
societies: the case of Babylonia.'The project was provoked by the fact that since 1996 a …

Whatever we may think of Alexander--whether Great or only lucky, a civilizer or a sociopath--
most people do not regard him as a religious leader. And yet religion permeated all aspects …

The article addresses developments within the Astronomical Diaries, as regards their formal
structure and the content of their historical sections, with a particular emphasis on ominous …

The first millennium BC is one of the best documented periods of Mesopotamianhistory. Both
archaeological remains and textual sources are available in abundance, but their diachronic …

The heavens as we encounter them in the Astronomical Diaries are a crowded yet precisely
charted space. The planets glide from one zodiac sign to the next; the background …