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This volume presents a vivid record in words and pictures of a dig
on the Anatolian borders of Mesopotamia that ended recently after
nearly two decades. Designed in the format of a survey book,
Ziyaret Tepe: Exploring the Anatolian frontier of the Assyrian
Empire captures the sense of intimacy and immediacy of the project.
Ziyaret Tepe, the ancient city of Tushan, was a provincial capital
of the Assyrian Empire, in its day the greatest empire the world
had ever seen. The excavations captured in this innovative book
uncovered the palace of the governor, the mansions of the elite and
the barracks of the rank and file, charting the history of the
empire from its expansion in the early 9th century BC to its fall
three centuries years later. The great mound of Ziyaret Tepe, with
its accumulated layers rising 22 metres above the surrounding
plain, is a record of thousands of years of human occupation. In
the course of 18 seasons of fieldwork, both the lower town and the
mound looming up over it yielded the secrets of Tushan, today in
southeast Turkey, near the border with Syria. This has always been
frontier country. Elaborate wall paintings, a hoard of luxury items
burned in a cremation ritual 2,800 years ago, and a cuneiform
tablet that hints at a previously unknown language are among the
team's exceptional finds. The story of the project is told by the
specialists who dedicated years of their lives to it.
Geophysicists, ceramicists, readers of cuneiform, experts in
weaving, board games and Neo-Assyrian politics joined
archaeologists, zooarchaeologists, archaeobotanists and many
others. But this is no dry field book of dusty digging. Both
accessible and scholarly, it is a lively, copiously illustrated
record of excavations involving the whole team, a compelling
demonstration of the collaboration - the science, artistry and
imaginative reconstruction - that makes modern archaeology so
absorbing.
I have been a Christian for about 40 years. I like to evangelize
and speak about Jesus whenever I can, and to guide people to the
Savior Christ. I was the publisher and editor of Testimonies
Magazine for two years, I believe I was led by the Spirit to write
this book because when I was saved, I had many questions and didn't
know quite where to get the answers. The credit goes to the Master
Lord God for this book. I am just the instrument who obeyed my Lord
and did the physical typing. This book is written with a new
Christian believer in mind. It is a book designed for born again
Protestant believers. I do encourage all religious backgrounds
including atheists to read and absorb the certainty of the words
enclosed.I believe this book ought to be used by Christian
evangelists or anyone mentoring new believers in their walk with
our Lord Jesus Christ as a great supplemental tool for new
believers.The subjects this book will be dealing with are: Abortion
Assurance of salvation Baptism Christianity as the one true faith
Church attendance Church language Death The devil The End Times
Evangelism Heaven and Hell Jesus' death and resurrection Love Other
religions Scientific and medical facts in the Bible Sin Testimonies
The truth of the Bible Why God allows bad things to happen
"The Assyrian Rock Relief at Yagmur in the Tur Abdin publishes a
newly discovered rock relief in the Mazidagi Plain, at the western
end of the Tur Abdin in southeastern Turkey. The preserved remains
include an image of an Assyrian king, divine symbols and traces of
three panels of cuneiform inscription. Both the image and the panel
preserving the most coherent section of legible text can be dated
to the time of Tiglath-pileser I. The sequences which can be
deciphered relate to the king's penetration into the northwest
undertaken in the course of his third campaign against the Nairi
lands. The monument is studied in the context of our understanding
of the Assyrian expansion in this sector, together with a review of
the settlement pattern and political organisation of the Tur Abdin
as presented in Assyrian sources."
Laying the Foundations, which developed out of the British Museum's
'Iraq Scheme' archaeological training programme, covers the core
components for putting together and running an archaeological field
programme. The focus is on practicality. Individual chapters
address background research, the use of remote sensing, approaches
to surface collection, excavation methodologies, survey with total
(and multi) stations, use of a dumpy level, context classification,
on-site recording, databases and registration, environmental
protocols, conservation, photography, illustration, post-excavation
site curation and report writing. While the manual is oriented to
the archaeology of Iraq, the approaches are no less applicable to
the Middle East more widely, an aim hugely facilitated by the
open-source distribution of translations into Arabic and Kurdish.
The city of Erbil, which now claims to be one of the oldest
continually inhabited cities in the world, lies on the rich
alluvial plains at the foot of the piedmont of the Zagros mountains
in a strategic position which made it a natural gateway between
Iran and Mesopotamia. Within the context of ancient Mesopotamian
civilisation there can be no doubt that it will have been one of
the most important urban centres but archaeological research of the
remains has been limited. Three recent archaeological assessments
of the mound have sought to evaluate the significance of the
remains within their historical context. This work is dedicated to
the cuneiform sources of information. There are a number of
references to Erbil in Eblaite and Sumerian administrative texts of
Akkadian (2334 - 2193 BC) and Ur III (2120 - 2004 BC) date and
hundreds of references in Akkadian texts from the 2nd and 1st
millennia; only two of which may actually come from Erbil. There
are a handful of references in unpublished Elamite texts from
Persepolis. In Old Persian the city only appears in the
corresponding version of the inscription at Behistun belonging to
the Achaemenid period (539-330 BC). There are no references in
Hittite, Hurrian, Urartian or Ugaritic sources. The sources include
a wide variety of administrative texts, royal and other
inscriptions, letters, votives and lexical texts.
The burgeoning of archaeological research in the Kurdish Autonomous
Region of Iraq is one of the great success stories of world
archaeology today. For twenty years it was impossible for western
archaeologists to work in Iraq, and for most of this time there
were also heavy restrictions on the activity of Iraqi
archaeologists. In addition to this Kurdistan remains a region
never systematically explored. The conference presented the first
opportunity for the leading figures in this renaissance of research
in the area to gather and present all the key new projects which
are revolutionising our understanding of the region. The following
papers are available to download in Open Access: Current
Investigations into the Early Neolithic of the Zagros Foothills of
Iraqi Kurdistan - Roger Matthews, Wendy Matthews, Kamal Rasheed
Raheem and Kamal Rauf Aziz: Download About Bakr Awa - Peter A.
Miglus: Download
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