Since the 1980s, projects such as the State Archives of Assyria have made great strides in the philological study of Neo-Assyrian inscriptional sources, producing text editions and hand-copies of admi
While systematically scrutinizing and analyzing all accounts of Shalmaneser III's western campaigns, Yamada (areas studies, University of Tsukuba) not only discusses the historiographical problems enc
Assyriologists present 10 papers on archaeological findings along the Habur and Middle Euphrates Rivers, focusing on cuneiform texts excavated during the periods 1997-99 and 2005-10 that date to the 1
This book explores aspects of the ancient civilization in West Asia, which has had a great impact on modern human society—agriculture, metallurgy, cities, writing, regional states, and monotheism, all
