Nicholas Postgate: 2 books
Early Mesopotamia
Society and Economy at the Dawn of History
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The roots of our modern world lie in the civilization of Mesopotamia, which saw the development of the first urban society and the invention of writing. The cuneiform texts reveal the technological and social innovations of Sumer and Babylonia as surprisingly modern, and the influence of this fascinating...
Bronze Age Bureaucracy
Writing and the Practice of Government in Assyria
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
This book describes ten different government archives of cuneiform tablets from Assyria, using them to analyze the social and economic character of the Middle Assyrian state, as well as the roles and practices of writing. The tablets, many of which have not been edited or translated, were excavated...