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The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East - Volume I: From the Beginnings to Old Kingdom Egypt and the Dynasty of Akkad (Hardcover)
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The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East - Volume I: From the Beginnings to Old Kingdom Egypt and the Dynasty of Akkad (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford History of the Ancient Near East
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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. Written by a highly
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.
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. Commencing
with the domestication of plants and animals, and the foundation of
the first permanent settlements in the region, Volume I contains
ten chapters that provide a masterful survey of the earliest
dynasties and territorial states in the ancient Near East,
concluding with the rise of the Old Kingdom in Egypt and the
Dynasty of Akkad in Mesopotamia. Politics, ideology, religion, art,
crafts, economy, military developments, and the built environment
are all examined. Uniquely, emphasis is placed upon elucidating
both the internal dynamics of these states and communities, as well
as their external relationships with their neighbors in the wider
region. The result is a thoughtful, critical, and robust survey of
the populations that laid the foundation for all future
developments in the ancient Near East.
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