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Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries: The Archaeological Evidence P. R. S. Moorey
Publisher: Eisenbrauns

The Downey monograph, although dealing with comparable evidence, concentrates on the neighbouring region of Mesopotamia and there is no overlap in material. I am a former member of the Historic Monuments Council and The Joint Committee for Industrial Heritage. Almost immediately the library epitomized the best scholarship of the ancient world, containing the intellectual riches of Mesopotamia, Persia, Greece, Rome and Egypt. For discussion of the earliest glass and faience artifacts in the Ancient Near East, see the exellent, classic volume by P. It is the southern Mesopotamian backdrop that provides the basis for studying the account in light of what is known of the culture and history of Mesopotamia. One of the Anyone who has perused the whole of the material is struck by the remarkable fact that Etemenanki [the fabulous ziggurat of Babylon] is nowhere mentioned in the description of the course of the [akitu] festival though numerous other sacred localities in Babylon are referred to. The procedure for building the temple—decision of the king, confirmation by god, securing materials and labour, planning the building, inauguration and the king's prayer, all followed in 1 Kings 5-8—is that commonly attested in Mesopotamia from Gudea of Lacash on. Ptolemy's grandest building project was the Alexandria Library, which he founded in 306 B.C.E. This narrative (which many actually consider to be innovative) in fact reiterates a common canon of thought – not only within the archaeological discourse – but within the history of Western philosophy. Yet, biblicist archaeologists, who would be struck off the register if they were doctors, have doctored so much archaeological evidence that religious punters today think Solomon is a well established historical figure. Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries: The Archaeological Evidence. In the FREE eBook Ancient Israel in Egypt and the Exodus, top scholars discuss the historical Israelites in Egypt and archaeological evidence for and against the historicity of the Exodus. In 2010, my good friend Nick Wright completed his PhD, “Religion in Seleukid Syria: gods at the crossroads (301-64 BC)”, at the Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University. It is one concerned with the evolution from hominids to humans or, synonymously, with the transition from hunting to industry and the subordination of nature by human reason. During a recent survey, a new generation of archaeologists found a vast hill—nearly 300 feet by 300 feet—covered with slag from smelting copper. Evidence shows that ancient Shahdad had a large metalworking industry by this time. €�Early Tin in the Near East: A reassessment in light of new evidence from Western Afghanistan.” Expedition 25:14-19.