Название: The First Great Powers: Babylon and Assyria
Автор: Arthur Cotterel
Издательство: Hurst
ISBN: 1787382114
Год: 2019
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 317
Размер: 66,1 МБ
Язык: Английский
The rediscovery of Babylon and Assyria in the 1840s transformed Western views on the origins of civilisation. The excavation of Nineveh proved that even the Greeks, Romans and Egyptians together did not constitute the ancient world. These peoples had nothing to do with the beginnings of civilisation on Earth. It was in Mesopotamia that humanity took the first steps on its path towards the society we know today.