The Ancient Near East: c. 3000-330 BC (2 Volume Set) (Routledge History of the Ancient World) (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of The Ancient Near East: c. 3000-330 BC (2 Volume Set) (Routledge History of the Ancient World) Friday, August 7 2009.

• The Ancient Near East embraces the borders of Iran and Afghanistan in the east to the Levant and Anatolia, and from the Black Sea in the north to Egypt in the south. The Ancient Near East dispels many of the misapprehensions which have surrounded the study of the region. In this well-illustrated volume, Amelie Kuhrt offers a comprehensive survey of the history of the Near East from the earliest written documents to Alexander the Great's Conquest, and provides up-to-date narrative which takes into account the latest archaeological and textual discoveries.

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Ancient Near East: c. 3000-330 BC (2 Volume Set) (Routledge History of the Ancient World) Thursday, July 16 2009.

• At the time that the first written documents begin to yield some coherent sense (c. 3200, see Green 1980), Mesopotamia had been inhabited for well over 2000 years.