Военная история / Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization

Название: Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization
Автор(ы): A. Leo Oppenheim
Издательство: THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS 1977
Страниц: 494
Язык: English
Формат: PDF OCR
Размер: 31 MB

Ancient Mesopotamia—the area now called Iraq—has received less attention than ancient Egypt and other long-extinct and more spectacular civilizations. But numerous small clay tablets buried in the desert soil for thousands of years make it possible for us to know more about the people of ancient Mesopotamia than any other land in the early Near East.