Investigations into the earliest stages of philosophy usually begin with the Pre-Socratics in the 8th-7th C. BCE. But there is a wealth of documents in other traditions from the Archaic Period (c. 1500-750BCE), which provide ample evidence for the use of central philosophical ideas, such as knowledge, 'science', divination, space and time, the three-part soul, the human body, God's nature, archetypal words for cognition, and so forth. This book examines...