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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking, five-volume series offers a comprehensive, fully illustrated history of Egypt and Western Asia (the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Iran), from the emergence of complex states to the conquest of Alexander the Great. Written by a diverse, international team of leading scholars whose expertise brings to life the people, places, and times of the remote past, the volumes in this series focus firmly on the political and social histories of the states and communities of the ancient Near East. Individual chapters present the key textual and material sources underpinning the historical reconstruction, paying particular attention to the most recent archaeological finds and their impact on our historical understanding of the periods surveyed.The fourth volume of the Oxford History of the Ancient Near East covers the period from the end of the second to the middle of the first millennium BC, ca. 1100-600 BC, corresponding with Egypt''s Third Intermediate Period. Fifteen ch
Table of ContentsPreface Time Chart The Contributors Abbreviations 35: Egypt before the Saites (Jean Li) 36: Kush under the Dynasty of Napata (Geoff Emberling) 37: Assyria from Tiglath-pileser I to Ashurnasirpal II (Daisuke Shibata) 38: The Assyrian Empire: A View from Within (Heather D. Baker) 39: The Assyrian Empire in Contact with the World (Jamie Novotny) 40: The Assyrian Empire: Perspectives on Culture and Society (Frederick Mario Fales) 41: Babylonia from Nebuchadnezzar I to Tiglath-pileser III (John P. Nielsen) 42: Elam in the Iron Age (Alexa Bartelmus) 43: The Medes and the Kingdom of Mannea (Andreas Fuchs) 44: The Kingdom of Urartu (Yervand Grekyan) 45: The Kingdom of Phrygia (Annick Payne) 46: The Iron Age States of Southeastern Anatolia and Northern Syria (Mark Weeden) 47: The Iron Age States on the Phoenician Coast (Françoise Briquel Chatonnet) 48: The Kingdoms of Israel and Judah (Omer Sergi) Index
