La tierra de Canaán

Cananeos, fenicios, y la llegada de los romanos a Oriente

La fascinante (y poco conocida) historia de Canaán, cuna de las civilizaciones cananeas y fenicias, desde sus orígenes hasta la época de la conquista romana y la creación de la provincia de Judea. La mítica Canaán, la Tierra Prometida, es una región que ha alimentado ...

Looking at Persians

Aeschylus' Persians is unique in being the only extant Greek tragedy on an historical subject: Greece's victory in 480 BC over the great Persian King, Xerxes, eight years before the play was written and first performed in 472 BC. Looking at Persians examines how ...

The Scythian empire

Central Eurasia and the birth of the classical age from Persia to China

A rich, discovery-filled history that tells how a forgotten empire transformed the ancient world In the late 8th and early 7th centuries BCE, Scythian warriors conquered and unified most of the vast Eurasian continent, creating an innovative empire that would give birth to the age ...

Antigua Asiria

una breve introducción

Asiria fue uno de los reinos más influyentes del Próximo Oriente Antiguo. En esta Breve Introducción, Karen Radner esboza la historia de Asiria de la ciudad estado hasta el imperio, de principios del II milenio a.C. hasta finales del siglo VII a.C. Desde ...

Elam en la Astrología Mesopotámica

Con un Addendum de textos sobre Elam

Tras nuestras publicaciones de Textos para la Historia de Elam (I y II), este opúsculo recoge los restantes textos mesopotámicos (asirios y babilonios) relativos a Elam, con cierto contenido informativo relevante para conocer su historia y cultura. Todos los documentos se refieren a la astrología ...

El paraíso y su entorno

paisaje rural del Próximo Oriente Antiguo

Cuando Europa comenzó a explorar el Próximo Oriente, las noticias sobre la región eran sumarias y hablaban sobre todo de un pasado legendario. Dos mitos en particular recogían los dos aspectos más llamativos del paisaje: la torre de Babel como metáfora de la ciudad y ...

Back to school in Babylonia

This volume—the companion book to the special exhibition Back to School in Babylonia of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of the University of Chicago—explores education in the Old Babylonian period through the lens of House F in Nippur, excavated jointly ...

Ashoka

portrait of a philosopher king

There are few historical figures more integral to South Asian history than Emperor Ashoka, a third-century BCE king who ruled over a larger area of the Indian subcontinent than anyone else before British colonial rule. Ashoka sought not only to rule his territory but also ...

La Chute de Babylone

12 octobre 539 av. J.-C.

Le 12 octobre 539 avant notre ère, en une nuit à peine, l’antique et splendide ville de Babylone tombe aux mains du roi perse Cyrus le Grand. Capitale déchue d’un empire qui s’étendait des rives de l’Euphrate à la Méditerranée et ...

Los persas

la era de los grandes reyes

La fascinante historia de Persia, la primera superpotencia de la Historia. Los reyes persas aqueménidas gobernaron el mayor imperio de la Antigüedad, que se extendía desde Libia hasta las estepas de Asia y desde Etiopía hasta el Indo. Bajo las inmensas columnas de la ciudad-palacio ...

Aspects of kinship in ancient Iran

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Originally delivered as the Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lectures, Aspects of Kinship in Ancient Iran is an exploration of ...

The Syriac world

in search of a forgotten Christianity

A comprehensive survey of Syriac Christianity over three thousand years Syriac is often referred to as the third main language of Christianity, along with Latin and Greek, and it remains a foundational classical, literary, and religious language throughout the world. Originating in Mesopotamia along the ...

Historia de Elam

(25 Años después)

Hace ya más de cien años que los estudios sobre la civilización elamita comenzaron. Por nuestra parte y continuando con el proyecto de divulgación de la cultura elamita en lengua castellana nos hemos decidido a poner a disposición de los estudiosos, estudiantes y espíritus interesados ...

Petra y el reino Nabateo

Este libro es el primero publicado en España sobre un reino del Próximo Oriente, Nabatea, cuya capital fue la famosa ciudad de Petra, una de las más importantes ciudades caravaneras del Mundo Antiguo, declarada Patrimonio de la Humanidad. Se ofrece así la oportunidad a los ...

The Oxford history of the ancient Near East

Volume IV: The Age of Assyria

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 diverse, international team of leading scholars whose expertise ...

Sasanian Persia

the rise and fall of an empire

Of profound importance in late antiquity, the Sasanian Empire is virtually unknown today, except as a counterpoint to the Roman Empire. In this highly readable history, Touraj Daryaee fills a significant gap in our knowledge of world history. He examines the Sasanians' complex and colourful ...

Scripts and scripture

writing and religion in Arabia, circa 500-700 CE

How did Islam's sacred scripture, the Arabic Qur'an, emerge from western Arabia at a time when the region was religiously fragmented and lacked a clearly established tradition of writing to render the Arabic language? The studies in this volume, the proceedings of a ...

The Hittites

lost civilizations

An accessible introduction to the Bronze Age culture in Asia Minor. Famed for their warriors, the Hittites flourished in the region of modern Turkey from the seventeenth to thirteenth centuries BC. In this book, archaeologist Damien Stone explores the rich history of the Hittite civilization ...

The Persians

lost civilizations

Now in paperback, this is a history of an incomparable culture whose influence can still be seen, millennia later, in modern-day Iran and the wider Middle East. During the first and second millennia BCE a swathe of nomadic peoples migrated outward from Central Asia into ...

Antioch in Syria

A History from Coins (300 BCE-450 CE)

Antioch in Syria critically reassesses this ancient city from its Seleucid foundation into Late Antiquity. Although Antioch's prominence is famous, Kristina M. Neumann newly exposes the gradations of imperial power and local agency mediated within its walls through a comprehensive study of the coins ...