The Age of Agade is the first book-length study of the Akkadian period of Mesopotamian
history, which saw the rise and fall of the world's first empire during more than a century of …

In this book devoted exclusively to temples and perceptions of the divine presences that
inhabit them, Michael B. Hundley focuses on the official religions of the ancient Near East …

This volume gathers brand new essays from some of the most respected scholars of ancient
history, archaeology, and physical anthropology to create an engaging overview of the lives …

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 …

Corporal punishment is often seen as a litmus test for a society's degree of civilization. Its licit
use purports to separate modernity from premodernity, enlightened from barbaric cultures …

The article offers an edition of the archaic stele, which is decorated with human figures
(“front” side) and bears an inscription (“back” side). On the basis of its script, the inscription …

Das vorliegende Buch stellt einen Versuch dar, die Lücke in der Geschichte des
Sumerischen zu schließen, die bislang zwischen den umfangreichen, gut untersuchten …

. I is paper has a long history, since it goes back to a presentation I gave in the fall of at the
“Columbia University Seminar for the Archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean, Europe …

Examining the evolution of kingship in the Ancient Near East from the time of the Sumerians
to the rise of the Seleucids in Babylon, this book argues that the Sumerian emphasis on the …

This book initiates the reader into the study of Akkadian literature from ancient Babylonia
and Assyria. With this one relatively short volume, the novice reader will develop the literary …