In the past, textile production was a key part of all ancient societies. The Ancient Near East stands out in this respec
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This volume brings together the work of scholars using various methodologies to investigate the prevalence, importance,
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Written sources from the ancient Near East and eastern Mediterranean, from the third to the first millennia BC, provide
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What is sacrifice? How can we identify it in the archaeological record? And what does it tell us about the societies tha
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In this book, Tyson Putthoff explores the relationship between gods and humans, and between divine nature and human natu
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What are numbers, and where do they come from? These questions have perplexed us for centuries, if not millennia. A nove
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In this comprehensive study of a common deity found in the ancient Near East as well as many other cultures, Green bring
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A comprehensive and authoritative overview of ancient material culture from the late Pleistocene to Late Antiquity Featu
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Oppenheim’s foundational study on dreams and their interpretation in the Ancient Near East has long been a standard text
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