Elam and Persia

by Mark B. Garrison

The late 7th and 6th centuries B.C. were a period of tremendous upheaval and change in ancient western Asia, marked by the destruction of the Assyrian Empire, the rise and collapse of the Neo-Babylonian state, and the stunning ascent of what was to become the Achaemenid Persian Empire, the largest polity the world had yet seen. Of the major cultural entities involved in these far-reaching events, Elam has long remained the least understood. The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157506166X
• ISBN13: 9781575061665
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Eisenbrauns
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 2.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 10.0"