The First Great Powers: Babylon and Assyria

by Arthur Cotterell

The rediscovery of Babylon and Assyria in the 1840s transformed Western views on the origins of civilisation. The excavation of Nineveh proved that even the Greeks, Romans and Egyptians together did not constitute the ancient world. These peoples had nothing to do with the beginnings of civilisation on Earth. It was in Mesopotamia that humanity took the first steps on its path towards the society we know today.

The Sumerians inaugurated civilisation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1787382117
• ISBN13: 9781787382114
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Hurst & Co.
• Length: 301 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"