Understanding Middle And Near Eastern Artifacts: Tablets, Slabs, Seals, and Cuneiform Inscriptions.: Understand Old Texts

Do you need some help in interpreting some ancient accounts? Then this book is definitely for you. Written by experienced experts, it will be your valuable assistant.

What if a picture is hard to understand or does not explain what we are looking at?
This happens quite often in the vast literature and history of ancient civilizations. Especially, when the inscriptions on or under the pictures or illustrations are written in a language we do not understand, such as Cuneiform, Ugaritic, Akkadian, Sumerian, Phoenician, and similar writing systems of the ancient Middle and Near East. In addition, there are thousands of slabs, cylinder seals, tablets, and obelisks of ancient and/or vanished civilizations, which are hard to decipher. And in many instances, no pertaining inscriptions or texts were ever provided to explain what the statues, figurines, slabs and tablets represent.
To fully understand the scriptures, texts, epics and literature of Mesopotamia, Sumer, Assyria, Chaldea, Phoenicia, and Ugarit, one must become familiar with the meaning (Hidden or revealed) of the inscriptions, the symbolism camouflaged in intricate details, and the religious-artistic-philosophical nuances of the art of the era.
It also requires familiarity with historical sites, ruins, and cities, and a perfect knowledge of the ancient languages and dialects of the ancient civilizations of the Near East, and the Middle East, and multiple linguistic analogies.
This book was written in order to deal with and to explain all these concerns, and above all to provide the readers with sufficient guidance, translation and explanation of major archaeological finds, ranging from a figurine to a massive monument.