| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 823 pages) |
| Contents |
Northern Mesopotamia and Syria / J.-R. Kupper -- Egypt: From the death of Ammenemes III to Seqenenre II / William C. Hayes -- Palestine in the Middle Bronze Age / Kathleen M. Kenyon -- Greece and the Aegean Islands in the Middle Bronze Age / John L. Caskey -- The maturity of Minoan civilization / F. Matz -- Cyprus in the Middle Bronze Age / H.W. Catling -- Hammurabi and the end of his dynasty / C.J. Gadd -- Anatolia c. 1750-1600 b.c. / O.R. Gurney -- Persia c. 1800-1550 b.c. / Walther Hinz -- Egypt: From the expulsion of the Hyksos to Amenophis I / T.G.H. James -- Egypt: Internal affairs from Tuthmosis I to the death of Amenophis III / William C. Hayes -- Syria c. 1550-1400 B.C. / Margaret S. Drower -- Palestine in the time of the Eighteenth Dynasty / Kathleen M. Kenyon -- The Zenith of Minoan Civilization / F. Matz -- The Linear Scripts and the Tablets as historical documents: (a) Literacy in Minoan and Mycenaean Lands / Sterling Dow and John Chadwick -- The rise of Mycenaean civilization / Frank H. Stubbings -- Anatolia c. 1600-1380 b.c. / O.R. Gurney and Carl W. Blegen -- The archaeological evidence of the second millennium B.C. on the Persian plateau / Robert H. Dyson |
| Summary |
This volume of 'The Cambridge Ancient History' embraces the wide range of approaches and scholarships which have in recent decades transformed our view of late antiquity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
History, Ancient.
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Civilization, Aegean.
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Civilization, Aegean.
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History, Ancient.
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| SUBJECT |
Egypt -- History -- 1800-1380 B.C
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Middle East -- History -- 1800-1380 B.C
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| Subject |
Middle East.
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Egypt.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Edwards, I. E. S. (Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen), 1909-1996.
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| ISBN |
9781139054263 |
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1139054260 |
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9780511466762 |
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0511466765 |
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9781139054263 |
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