Margarete van Ess

Friedhelm Pedde

Kleinfunde II : Metall und Asphalt, Farbreste, Fritte/Fayence, Glas, Holz, Knochen/Elfebein, Leder, Muschel/Perlmutt, Schnecke, Schilf, Textilien

Uruk

Markus Hilgert

Nicola Crüsemann

Beate Salje

This abundantly illustrated volume explores the genesis and flourishing of Uruk, the first known metropolis in the history of humankind. More than one hundred years ago, discoveries from a German archaeological dig at Uruk, roughly two hundred miles south of present-day Baghdad, sent shock waves through the scholarly world. Founded at the end of the fifth millennium BCE, Uruk was the main force for urbanization in what has come to be called the Uruk period (4000–3200 BCE), during which small, agricultural villages gave way to a larger urban center with a stratified society, complex governmental bureaucracy, and monumental architecture and art. It was here that proto-cuneiform script—the earliest known form of writing—was developed around 3400 BCE. Uruk is known too for the epic tale of its hero-king Gilgamesh, among the earliest masterpieces of world literature. Containing 480 images, this volume represents the most comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the archaeological evidence gathered at Uruk. More than sixty essays by renowned scholars provide glimpses into the life, culture, and art of the first great city of the ancient world. This volume will be an indispensable reference for readers interested in the ancient Near East and the origins of urbanism.

First City of the Ancient World

Klaus Rheidt

Baalbek, das römische Heliopolis im heutigen Libanon, gehört zu den bekanntesten, aber auch rätselhaftesten Ruinenstätten des Vorderen Orients. Die riesigen römischen Monumentalbauten werfen Fragen nach den ökonomischen Grundlagen, historischen Bedingungen und Lebenswelten ihrer Erbauer und Nutzer auf. Die spektakulären und die unscheinbaren Reste historischer Bauten sowie die zahllosen Funde sind es, mit deren Hilfe diese Fragen beantwortet werden können. Sie sind die Quellen für eine Entwicklungsgeschichte Baalbeks und der nördlichen Beqaa-Ebene, die weit früher beginnt, als bisher angenommen. Sie vermitteln auch in den nachrömischen Epochen erstaunliche neue Einblicke in eine sich wandelnde Gesellschaft, für die die spektakulären römischen Bauten immer wieder aufs Neue wechselnde Bedeutung erlangten. Sie werfen Licht auf zehn Jahrtausende Geschichte einer der bedeutendstem Kulturregionen zwischen Orient und Okzident.

10.000 Jahre Stadtgeschichte

Baalbek - Heliopolis

Eva Christiane Cancik-Kirschbaum

Joachim Marzahn

In this collection of interdisciplinary papers, for the first time well-known scholars of Ancient Near Eastern Studies discuss Babylon from the point of view of the 'culture of knowledge'. The volume is the result of a conference that took place on the occasion of the exhibition Babylon ' Truth and Myth in Berlin. For the contemporary cultures of the Ancient World, Babylon was the epitome of learned scholarship. Yet in the processes of transformation of Late and post-Antiquity, to the same extent to which this culture of knowledge was forgotten after the collapse of the old oriental empires, Babylon became symbolic for the occult, for magic and esoteric knowledge.As the first joint pilot project by Topoi and the publisher Walter de Gruyter for the simultaneous publication in print and open access, this volume will, on publication, also be available via the website www.reference-global.de as an eBook 'open access'.

Wissenskultur in Orient und Okzident

Babylon

Margarete van Ess

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