Civilizations of ancient Iraq
By: Benjamin R. Foster, Karen Polinger Foster.
Contributors: Foster, Karen Polinger, 1950-
Publisher: Princeton University Press; Brand: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780691137223
Subjects: Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian; Assyria -- Antiquities; Babylonia -- Antiquities; Babylonia -- Social life and customs; Iraq -- History -- To 634
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of illustrations; title: Preface; title: In the beginning of Tigris and Euphrates; title: the birthplace of civilization; title: Early city-states; title: Kings of the four quarters of the world; title: The age of Hammurabi; title: Babylonia in the family of nations; title: The Assyrian achievement; title: The glory of Babylon; title: Mesopotamia between two worlds; title: Sassanian Iraq; title: Epilogue: discovery and destruction of ancient Iraq.