The Assyrian Empire was the first state to achieve durable domination of the Ancient Near
East, enduring some seven centuries and, eventually, controlling most of the region. Yet, we�…

Organized by the periods, kingdoms, and empires generally used in ancient Near Eastern
political history, Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture interlaces social and cultural�…

We present an approach comparing wealth inequality between c. 3000 BCE and 224 CE in
the Near East using house sizes and urban area from 1060 houses in 98 archaeological�…

Assur was just a small city-state until the first half of the second millennium bc, but it
succeeded in subduing the surrounding territories in the fifteenth and fourteenth centuries�…

In recent years, it has become increasingly obvious that major developments in the history of
the Achaemenid-Persian Empire can only be adequately understood when they are seen in�…

Description: Leiden; Boston: Brill,[2020]| Series: Cuneiform monographs, 0929-0052; vol.
51| Includes bibliographical references.| Summary:“In Study on the Synchronistic King List�…

This chapter surveys the history of the ancient Near Eastern empires of the first millennium
bce. It contextualizes the history of the early Persian Empire under Cyrus the Great (about�…

Forty-three years after the publication of Simo Parpola's article “The Murderer of
Sennacherib,” the events of his assassination in 681 BC and Esarhaddon's accession to the�…

ABSTRACT 1 The texts of Isaiah 7 and 8 are a paragon of metaphorical meanings and
signs, especially as they pertain to the name-giving of Isaiah's sons: Shear-Jashub�…

The site of Sirkeli H�y�k in the province of Adana in modern Turkey is one of the largest
settlement mounds in Plain Cilicia. In 2012, a geophysical survey revealed that the ancient�…