The series, for high-school students and general readers, offers cross-disciplinary introductions to major civilizations that have flourished from antiquity to modern times, with a global perspective
This volume grew out of a collaborative study of the eighteen mostly unpublished Late Babylonian commodity price-only tablets in the British Museum. The purpose of this project was two-fold. First, to
This volume completes publication of the cuneiform documents of the Hellenistic period in the Yale Babylonian Collection, begun by A. T. Clay in 1913. This long-awaited edition contains reproductions
Reflects on over 4,000 years of history, from the Early Bronze Age to 325 B.C.E., and providing sidebars, timelines, maps, and illustrations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Iran/Persia, and the Arabian Peninsu
