Empires Of The Plain
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Empires Of The Plain
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Author : Lesley Adkins
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2003
Empires Of The Plain written by Lesley Adkins and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Foreign Language Study categories.
At Behistun, in the Zagros mountains of what is now western Iran, rises a vertical cliff face covered with a huge cuneiform inscription set up in 520 BC to record the exploits of the Persian king Darius the Great. In 1835, Henry Creswicke Rawlinson began the perilous task of recording this inscription, sometimes from a ladder propped up on a narrow ledge, sometimes lowered down the cliff on a rope, but mainly clinging precariously to the rock face itself. Every minute he was in danger of a fatal fall - the work took 12 years to complete. The decipherment of cuneiform was one of the last great linguistic challenges, though only one pinnacle in the life of a remarkable man, a soldier, adventurer and scholar who was onetime political agent at Kandahar in Afghanistan where he had been beseiged for two years by local tribesman, and who went on to become consul-general and later a director of the East India Company.
Empires Of The Plain Henry Rawlinson And The Lost Languages Of Babylon Text Only
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Author : Lesley Adkins
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2012-06-28
Empires Of The Plain Henry Rawlinson And The Lost Languages Of Babylon Text Only written by Lesley Adkins and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
How 19th-century soldier, adventurer and scholar Henry Rawlinson deciphered cuneiform, the world’s earliest writing, and rediscovered Iraq's ancient civilisations.
Remains Of Lost Empires
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Author : Philip Van Ness Myers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1875
Remains Of Lost Empires written by Philip Van Ness Myers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1875 with Babylon (Extinct city) categories.
The Greatest Empires Civilizations Of The Ancient East Egypt Babylon The Kings Of Israel And Judah Assyria Media Chaldea Persia Parthia Sasanian Empire
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Author : George Rawlinson
language : en
Publisher: e-artnow
Release Date : 2018-11-02
The Greatest Empires Civilizations Of The Ancient East Egypt Babylon The Kings Of Israel And Judah Assyria Media Chaldea Persia Parthia Sasanian Empire written by George Rawlinson and has been published by e-artnow this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-02 with History categories.
This carefully edited historical collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Ancient Near East was the home of early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt, ancient Iran Asia Minor and Armenian Highlands, the Levant, Cyprus and the Arabian Peninsula. This book covers the history of the entire region through the period of over three millennia. It brings political and cultural history of eight most important kingdoms and empires of the region: Egypt, Parthia, Chaldea, Assyria, Media, Babylon, Persia and Sasanian Empire. Content: Egypt Phoenicia Chaldea Assyria Media Babylon Persia Parthia Sasanian Empire The Kings of Israel and Judah The History of Herodotus: The Original Source
The Great Empires Of The Ancient East
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Author : George Rawlinson
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2023-12-15
The Great Empires Of The Ancient East written by George Rawlinson and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-15 with History categories.
The Ancient Near East was the home of early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt, ancient Iran Asia Minor and Armenian Highlands, the Levant, Cyprus and the Arabian Peninsula. This book covers the history of the entire region through the period of over three millennia. It brings political and cultural history of eight most important kingdoms and empires of the region: Egypt, Parthia, Chaldea, Assyria, Media, Babylon, Persia and Sasanian Empire. Content: Egypt Phoenicia Chaldea Assyria Media Babylon Persia Parthia Sasanian Empire The Kings of Israel and Judah The History of Herodotus: The Original Source
The Great Empires Of The Ancient East
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Author : George Rawlinson
language : en
Publisher: e-artnow
Release Date : 2018-05-28
The Great Empires Of The Ancient East written by George Rawlinson and has been published by e-artnow this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-28 with History categories.
The Ancient Near East was the home of early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt, ancient Iran Asia Minor and Armenian Highlands, the Levant, Cyprus and the Arabian Peninsula. This book covers the history of the entire region through the period of over three millennia. It brings political and cultural history of eight most important kingdoms and empires of the region: Egypt, Parthia, Chaldea, Assyria, Media, Babylon, Persia and Sasanian Empire. Content: Egypt Phoenicia Chaldea Assyria Media Babylon Persia Parthia Sasanian Empire The Kings of Israel and Judah The History of Herodotus: The Original Source
The Barbarian Plain
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Author : Elizabeth Key Fowden
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1999-11-30
The Barbarian Plain written by Elizabeth Key Fowden and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-11-30 with History categories.
During the fifth and sixth centuries A.D. there arose on the Euphrates frontier, between the empires of Rome and Iran, a city girded with glittering gypsum walls. Within these walls stood a great church, a shrine for the relics of Saint Sergius, who was martyred there, at Rusafa, in the early fourth century. Around Rusafa stretched the "Barbarian Plain," inhabited by Rome's Arab allies, many of whom revered the saint. Elizabeth Key Fowden examines the rise of the cult of Sergius in late antiquity, drawing on literary accounts, inscriptions, archaeology, images, and the landscape itself to construct a many-faceted picture of the role of religion in this frontier society. Focusing on the socio-cultural as well as the political dimensions of the Sergius cult, her study sheds light on the lives of the ordinary faithful, as well as on religion's place in the strategic calculations of hostile empires. Beginning with a detailed analysis of the surviving accounts of the martyrdom of Sergius, Fowden provides a discussion of Syrian Rusafa-Sergiopolis, traces the spread of the Sergius cult in Syria and Mesopotamia, and provides a provocative interpretation of the relation between the saint's presence at Rusafa and his role in frontier defense. She also discusses Arab Christianity in the context of late Roman culture in the East, as well as the continuation of the Sergius tradition after the Muslim conquest, emphasizing the changes and continuities brought by the rise of Islam.
Empires Of The Senses
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Author : Andrew J. Rotter
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-06-21
Empires Of The Senses written by Andrew J. Rotter and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-21 with History categories.
When encountering unfamiliar environments in India and the Philippines, the British and the Americans wrote extensively about the first taste of mango and meat spiced with cumin, the smell of excrement and coconut oil, the feel of humidity and rough cloth against skin, the sound of bells and insects, and the appearance of dark-skinned natives and lepers. So too did the colonial subjects they encountered perceive the agents of empire through their senses and their skins. Empire of course involved economics, geopolitics, violence, a desire for order and greatness, a craving for excitement and adventure. It also involved an encounter between authorities and subjects, an everyday process of social interaction, political negotiation, policing, schooling, and healing. While these all concerned what people thought about each other, perceptions of others, as Andrew Rotter shows, were also formed through seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, and tasting. In this book, Rotter offers a sensory history of the British in India from the formal imposition of their rule to its end (1857-1947) and the Americans in the Philippines from annexation to independence (1898-1946). The British and the Americans saw themselves as the civilizers of what they judged backward societies, and they believed that a vital part of the civilizing process was to properly prioritize the senses and to ensure them against offense or affront. Societies that looked shabby, were noisy and smelly, felt wrong, and consumed unwholesome food in unmannerly ways were unfit for self-government. It was the duty of allegedly more sensorily advanced Anglo-Americans to educate them before formally withdrawing their power. Indians and Filipinos had different ideas of what constituted sensory civilization and to some extent resisted imperial efforts to impose their own versions. What eventually emerged were compromises between these nations' sensory regimes. A fascinating and original comparative work, Empires of the Senses offers new perspectives on imperial history.
Empires And Diversity
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Author : Gregory E. Areshian
language : en
Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Release Date : 2013-12-31
Empires And Diversity written by Gregory E. Areshian and has been published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-31 with History categories.
For more than four thousand years, empires have been geographically the largest polities on Earth, shaping in many respects the human past and present in different epochs and on different continents. Covering the time span from the second millennium B.C.E. to the sixteenth century C.E., and geographic areas from China to South America, the case studies included in this volume demonstrate the necessity to combine perspectives from the longue duree and global comparativism with the theory of agency and an understanding of specific contexts for human actions. Contributions from leading scholars examine salient aspects of the Hittite, Assyrian, Ancient Egyptian, Achaemenid and Sasanian Iranian, Zhou to Han Dynasty Chinese, Inka, and Mughal empires.
The Four Prophetic Empires And The Kingdom Of The Messiah
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Author : Thomas Rawson Birks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1844
The Four Prophetic Empires And The Kingdom Of The Messiah written by Thomas Rawson Birks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1844 with Bible categories.