Timescapes Maps Bibliography
General
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New Haven: Yale University Press for Metropolitan Museum of Art 2003 - Aruz, J., Benzel K. & Evans, J.M. (eds.), Beyond Babylon: Art, Trade and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C.
New Haven: Yale University Press for Metropolitan Museum of Art 2008 - Aruz, J., Graff S.B., & Rakic, Y. (eds.), Cultures In Contact From Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean in the Second Millennium BC
New Haven: Yale University Press for Metropolitan Museum of Art 2013 - Bryce, T., Letters Of The Great Kings Of The Ancient Near East: Royal Correspondence of the Late Bronze Age
London: Routledge 2003 - Bryce, T., The Routledge Handbook Of The Peoples And Places Of Ancient Western Asia
London: Routledge 2009 - Bogucki, P. (Ed.) Encyclopedia Of Society And Culture In The Ancient World
Atlanta: Facts On File 2008 - Cline, E.H., 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
Princeton University Press 2015 - Harmanşah, O., Cities and the Shaping of Memory in the Ancient Near East
Cambridge University Press 2013 - Herodotus, The Histories, with translation by Aubrey de Sélincourt
London: Penguin 2003 - Ikeda, Y., Royal Cities and Fortified Cities
London: British Institute for the Study of Iraq/ Iraq, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Spring, 1979), pp. 75-87 - Kaniewski, D., Drought And Societal Collapse 3200 Years Ago In The Eastern Mediterranean: A Review
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews, Volume 6, Issue 4, July/August 2015, Pages 369-382 - Lambeck, L., Shoreline Reconstructions For The Persian Gulf Since The Last Glacial Maximum
Amsterdam: Elsevier, EPSL, Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University. Canberra, 1996 - Larsen, M.T., Power & Propanda: A Symposium on Ancient Empires
Denmark: Akademisk Forlag 1979 - Mockler, E., On the Identification of Places on the Makrān Coast Mentioned by Arrian, Ptolemy, andMarcian
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, New Series, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Apr., 1879), pp. 129-154 - Muscarella, O., Bronze and Iron Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art - Reade, J. (ed.) The Indian Ocean in Antiquity
London: Keegan Paul International 1996 - Philips, E.D., The Scythian Domination in Western Asia: Its Record in History, Scripture and Archaeology
London: Taylor & Francis, Ltd., World Archaeology, Vol. 4, No. 2, Nomads (Oct., 1972), pp. 129-138 - Potts, D.T., A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, First Edition
London: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2012 - Stillman, N. & Tallis, N. Armies Of The Ancient Near East: 3,000 BC to 539 BC
Cambridge: Wargames Research Group 1984
Achaemenid Persia
- Potts, D.T., Achaemenid Interests In The Persian Gulf, Chap. 49 in Curtis J. and Simpson, S.J. (eds), The World of Achaemenid Persia: History, Art and Society in Iran and the Ancient Near East
London: I.B. Tauris 2010 - Colburn, H.P., Connectivity and Communication in the Achaemenid EmpireLeiden: Brill, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Vol. 56, No. 1 (2013), pp. 29-52
- Holland, T., Persian Fire: The First World Empire And The Battle For The West
London: Little, Brown Book Group 2005 - Llewellyn-Jones, L., King and Court in Ancient Persia 559 to 331 BCE
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2013 - Xenophon, The Anabasis
Aegean
- Billows, Richard A., Marathon: The Battle That Changed Western Civilization New York: Abrams 2011
- Burckhardt, J., The Greeks And Greek Civilization London: Harper Collins 1999
- Cartledge, P., Ancient Greece: A History In Eleven Cities Oxford: Oxford University Press 2009
- Chadwick, J., The Mycenaean World Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1976
- Cottrell, L., The Bull Of Minos: The Great Discoveries Of Ancient Greece London: Tauris Parke Books 2009
- Hale, J.R., Lords Of The Sea: The Epic Story Of The Athenian Navy And The Birth Of Democracy London: Penguin 2009
- Herodotus, Histories London: Penguin Classics 2003
- Homer, The Iliad London: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition 1999
- Kelder, J.M., The Kingdom of Mycenae: A Great Kingdom in the Late Bronze Age Aegean Maryland : CDL Press Bethesda, 2010
- Luraghi, N., Traders, Pirates, Warriors: The Proto-History of Greek Mercenary Soldiers in the Eastern Mediterranean Source: Phoenix, Vol. 60, No. 1/2 (Spring – Summer, 2006), pp. 21-47 Published by: Classical Association of Canada
- MacKendrick, P.L., The Greek Stones Speak: The Story Of Archaeology In Greek Lands New York: W.W. Norton & Co. 1984
- Maggi, S., Greece: History And Treasures Of An Ancient Civilization Milano: White Star 2007
- Martin, T. R., Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric To Hellenistic Times New Haven: Yale University Press 2000
- Shelmerdine, C.W., The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2010
- Strauss, B.S., The Battle Of Salamis: The Naval Encounter That Saved Greece – And Western Civilization New York: Simon & Schuster 2007
Akkad & Sumer
- Adams, R. McC. and Nissen, H. J., The Uruk Countryside: The Natural Setting of Urban Societies
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press 1972 - Albright, W.F. A Babylonian Geographical Treatise on Sargon of Akkad’s Empire
Yale: Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 45 (1925), pp. 193-245 - Frayne, D.R., Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia/ Early Periods: Old Babylonian Period, 2003-1595 B.C v. 4 (The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia)
Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1990 - Frayne, D.R., Sargonic and Gutian Periods (2234-2113 BC) (The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia)
Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2015 - Frayne, D.R., Ur III Period (2112-2004 BC) (The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia)
Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2015 - Frayne, D.R., Pre-Sargonic Period: Early Periods, Volume 1 (2700-2350 BC) (RIM The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia)
Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2015 - King, L.W., A History of Sumer and Akkad
London: Chatto & Windus 1910 - Kramer, S. N., The Sumerian Deluge Myth: Reviewed and Revised
Ankara: British Institute at Ankara, Anatolian Studies, Vol. 33, Special Number in Honour of the Seventy-Fifth Birthday of Dr. Richard Barnett (1983), pp. 115-121 - Lambert, W.G. Narām-Sîn of Ešnunna or Akkad?
Chicago: Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 106, No. 4 (Oct. – Dec., 1986), pp. 793-795.
University Of Chicago Press 1990 - Levine, L. D., Geographical Studies in the Neo-Assyrian Zagros-II
London: Taylor & Francis, Ltd., Iran, Vol. 12 (1974), pp. 99-124 - Richardson, S., Early Mesopotamia: The Presumptive State from Past & Present, No. 215 (MAY 2012), pp. 3-49
London: Oxford University Press on behalf of The Past and Present Society - Stepian, M, From the History of State System in Mesopotamia – The Kingdom of the Third Dynasty of UrWarsaw: Publikacja dofinansowana przez/ Rektora Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego i Dyrekcję Instytutu Historycznego 2009
- Wall-Romana, C. An Areal Location of Agade
Chicago: Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 49, No. 3 (Jul., 1990), pp. 205-245. University Of Chicago Press 1990
Alexander The Great
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Chinnock, E.J., Literally Translated, With A Commentary,
From The Greek Of Arrian The Nicomedian
London: Hodder & Stoughton 1884 - Budge, E.A.W., The Life And Exploits Of Alexander The Great : Being A Series Of Translations Of The Ethiopic Histories Of Alexander By The Pseudo-Callisthenes And Other Writers, With Introduction, Etc.
London: C.J.Clay 1896 - Green, P., Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography
Oakland: University of California Press 1992 - Hammond, N. G. L., Alexander’s Newly-founded Cities
Durham, NC: Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 39, 1998, 243-269 - McCrindle, J.W., The Invasion Of India By Alexander The Great
London: A. Constable & Co. 1896 - Mosafa, S. & Abolqasemi, M., Passing Alexander Through Gedrosia
International Research Journal of Applied and Basic Sciences (IRJABS)
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Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2010 - Pederson, R.B., A Study Of Combined Arms Warfare By Alexander The Great
Fort Leavenworth: Thesis presented to the Faculty of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Master Of Military Art And Science, 1998 - Plutarch, The Life Of Alexander The Great / Dryden, J. (Translator)
Boston: Little & Brown 1906
Anatolia
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Pennsylvania: Eisenbrauns, 2002 - Bryce, T., Life and Society in the Hittite World
Oxford University Press, 2002 - Bryce, T., The World of the Neo-Hittite Kingdoms: A Political and Military History
Oxford University Press 2012 - Bryce, T., The Kingdom Of The Hittites
Oxford University Press 2005 - Bryce, T., Warriors of Anatolia: A Concise History of the Hittites
London: Bloomsbury Publishing 2018 - Burney, C., Historical Dictionary Of The Hittites
Maryland: Scarecrow Press 2004 - Ceram, C.W., The Secret Of The Hittites: The Discovery Of An Ancient Empire
London: Phoenix 2001 - D’agostino, A., Orsi, V., Torri, G., Sacred Landscapes of Hittites and Luwians: Proceedings of the International Conference in Honour of Franca Pecchioli Daddi, Florence, February 6th-8th, 2014
Florence: Firenze University Press 2015 - Donbaz, V., Old Assyrian Influence on the Hittite Onomasticon and Toponyms
Istanbul: Anadolu Arastirmalari (Anatolian Researches), Issue 14 (1996) pp. 229 – 241 - Gates, M-H., Archaeology in Turkey
Boston: Archaeological Institute of America, The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts, Vol. 100, No. 2 (1996), pp. 277-335 - Gates, M-H., The Hittite Seaport Izziya At Late Bronze Age Kinet Höyük (Cilicia)
Massachusetts: American Schools of Oriental Research, Eastern Archaeology , Vol. 76, No. 4 ( 2013), pp. 223-234 - Glatz, C.& Matthews, R., Anthropology of a Frontier Zone: Hittite-Kaska Relations in Late Bronze Age North-Central Anatolia
Massachusetts: The Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Vol. 339 (2005) - Glatz, C.& Matthews, R., The Historical Geography Of North-Central Anatolia In The Hittite Period: Texts And Archaeology In Concert
Ankara: British Institute at Ankara, Anatolian Studies, Vol. 59 (2009), pp. 51-72 - Greaves, A.M. & Helwing, B., Archaeology in Turkey: The Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages, 1997-1999
Boston: Archaeological Institute of America, The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts, Vol. 105, No. 3 (2001), pp. 463-511 - Gurney, O.R., The Hittites
Istanbul: Hauraki Publishing 2016 - Haspels, C.H.E., The Highlands of Phrygia: Sites and Monuments
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971. 2 vols. - Hoffner, H.A., The Laws of the Hittites: A Critical Edition
Leiden: Brill 1997 - Hopkins, D.C., Across the Anatolian Plateau: Readings in the Archaeology of Ancient Turkey
Massachusetts: The Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Vol. 57 (2000) - Havva, I. & Dundar, E., (Eds.) Lukka’dan Likya’ya / From Lukka to Lycia: Sarpedon Ve Aziz Nikolaos’un Ulkesi / The Land of Sarpedon and St. Nicholas
Istanbul: YKY 2016 - Kryszeń, A., Towards A Reconstruction Of Hittite Geography – The Case Of Šallapa
Warsaw: University Of Warsaw, Institute Of History, Palamedes 7 (2012) - Leake, W.M., Journal Of A Tour In Asia Minor
London: John Murray 1824 - Macqueen, J.G., The Hittites and Their Contemporaries in Asia Minor
London: Thames and Hudson 1996 - Melchert, H.C. (ed.), The Borders Of Tarhuntassa Revisited in The Luwians,Handbuch der Orientalistik 68
Leiden: Brill (2007) pp. 507-513 - Mitchell, S., Archaeology in Asia Minor 1990-98
London: The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (University College London), Archaeological Reports, No. 45 (1998 – 1999), pp. 125-192
- Muscarella, O.W., The Iron Age Background to the Formation of the Phrygian State
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, Bulletin of The American Schools of Oriental Research, No. 299/300, The Archaeology of Empire in Ancient Anatolia (1995), pp. 91-101 - Parker, B.J., Archaeological Manifestations of Empire: Assyria’s Imprint on Southeastern Anatolia
Boston: Archaeological Institute of America, The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts, Vol. 107, No. 4 (2003), pp. 525-557 - Ramsay, W.M., Antiquities of Southern Phrygia and the Border Lands (I)
Boston: Archaeological Institute of America, The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts, Vol. 3, No. 3/4 (1887), pp. 344-368 - Sayce, A.H., The Hittites: The Story of a Forgotten Empire
Alexandria: Library of Alexandria, 1890 - Sevin, V., The Early Iron Age in the Elazıǧ Region and the Problem of the Mushkians
Ankara: British Institute at Ankara, Anatolian Studies, Vol. 41 (1991), pp. 87-97 - Yener, K.A., The Anatolian Middle Bronze Age Kingdoms And Alalakh: Mukish, Kanesh And Trade
Chicago: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Anatolian Studies 57 (2007): 151−160
Assyria
- Assyrian and Babylonian Empires and Other States of the Near East, from the Eighth to the Sixth Centuries B.C
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Ancient History, Vol III, Part 2 (2008) - Bloch, Y., The Conquest Eponyms of Šamšī-Adad I and the Kaneš Eponym List
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press/ Journal of Near Eastern Studies , Vol. 73, No. 2 (October 2014), pp. 191-210 - Dezso, T., Subria and the Assyrian Empire
Budapest: Article in Acta Antiqua 46(1):33-38, Magyar Tudományos Akadémia 2006 - Dezso, T., The Structure Of The Neo-Assyrian Army
Budapest: Monographs of the Institute of Ancient Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest 2012 - Dubovský, P., Hezekiah and the Assyrian Spies: Reconstruction of the Neo-Assyrian Intelligence Services and Its Significance for 2 Kings 18-19
Rome: Gregorian Biblical BookShop, 2006 - Grayson, A.K., Assyrian Officials And Power In The Ninth And Eighth Centuries
Helsinki: State Archives of Assyria Bulletin, 1993 - Hawkins, J.D., Assyrians and Hittites
London: British Institute for the Study of Iraq; Iraq, Vol. 36, No. 1/2 (1974), pp. 67-83 - Harmansah, O., Beyond Assur. New Cities & Assyrian Politics of Landscape
Massachusetts: Article in Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 2012 - Kuhne, H & Rollig, W., The Lower Habur. A preliminary report on a survey conducted by the Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients in 1975
(Online) Les Annales Archeologiques Arabes Syriennes, 27/28 (1977), pp. 115-140 - Layard, A.H., Discoveries among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon; with Travels in Armenia, Kurdistan, and the Desert: Being the Result of a
Second Expedition Undertaken for the Trustees of the British Museum
London : John Murray 1853. - Levine, L.D., Geographical Studies in the Neo-Assyrian Zagros-II from Iran, Vol. 12 (1974), pp. 99-124
London: Taylor & Francis, Ltd 1974 - Levine, L.D., Sennacherib’s Southern Front: 704-689 B.C.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The American Schools of Oriental Research, Journal of Cuneiform Studies, Vol. 34, No. 1/2 (Jan. – Apr., 1982), pp. 28-58 - Liverani, M. (ed.) Neo-Assyrian Geography
Roma: University Of Rome 1995 - Llop, J., The Creation of the Middle Assyrian Provinces
Chicago: Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 131, No. 4 (October-December 2011), pp. 591-603 - Luckenbill.D.D., Ancient Records Of Assyria & Babylonia Vol. I
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1926 - Luckenbill.D.D., Ancient Records Of Assyria & Babylonia Vol. 2
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1927 - MacGinnis, J…Wicke, D…Greenfield, T. (Eds.), Provincial Archaeology Of Assyrian Empire
Cambridge: McDonald Institute For Archæological Research, 2016 - Maspero, G., The Assyrian Revival and the Struggle for Syria from History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 7
London: The Grolier Society, 1903 - Na’aman, N. The Historical Portion Of Sargon II’s Nimrud Inscription
Helsinki: State Archives of Assyria Bulletin 8/1, 1994, pp. 17-20. - Olmstead, A.T., The Assyrian Chronicle
Chicago: Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 34 (1915), pp. 344-368 - Olmstead, A.T., The Calculated Frightfulness of Ashur Nasir Apal
Chicago: Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 38 (1918), pp. 209-263 - Olmstead, A.T., Shalmaneser III and the Establishment of the Assyrian Power
Chicago: Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 41 (1921), pp. 345-382 - Olmstead, A.T., History Of Assyria
New York: Scribner 1923 - Parker, B.J., At The Edge Of Empire: Conceptualizing Assyria’s Anatolian Frontier ca. 700 BC
Salt Lake City: The University of Utah, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 21 (2002) 371-395 - Pleiner, R. & Bjorkman, J.K., The Assyrian Iron Age – The History of Iron in the Assyrian Civilization
Philadelphia: Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 118, No. 3 (1974), pp. 283-313 - Radner, K., Assyria And The Medes
Oxford: The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Iran. Daniel T. Potts (Ed.) 2013 - Reade, J., Studies In Assyrian Geography- Part I – Sennacherib And The Waters Of Nineveh
Paris: Revue D’assyriologie et D’archéologie Orientale, vol. 72, No. 1 (1978), pp. 47-72 - Reade, J., Studies In Assyrian Geography (suite)
Paris: Revue d’Assyriologie et d’archéologie orientale, Vol. 72, No. 2 (1978), pp. 157-180Presses Universitaires de France - Rede, M., The Image Of Violence And The Violence Of The Image: War And Ritual In Assyria (Ninth – Seventh Centuries BCE)Sao Paolo: Abstract, Universidade de Sao Paolo, 2017
- Speiser, E.A., Southern Kurdistan in the Annals of Ashurnasirpal and Today
The Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Vol. 8 (1926 – 1927), pp. 1-41 - .Van De Mieroop, M., Revenge, Assyrian Style
Oxford: Oxford University Press on behalf of The Past and Present Society/ No. 179 , 2003, pp. 3-2 - Wilkinson, T.J., Ur, J., Barbanes, E., Altaweel, M., Landscape and Settlement in the Neo-Assyrian Empire
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, No. 340 (Nov., 2005), pp. 23- 56 - Yamada, S., Karus On The Frontiers Of The Neo-Assyrian Empire
Tsukuba: University of Tsukuba, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences/ Orient, Vol XL, 2005 - Ziegler, N., The Conquest of the Holy City of Nineveh and the Kingdom of Nurrugum by Samsî-Addu
London: British Institute for the Study of Iraq/ Iraq, Vol. 66, Nineveh. Papers of the 49th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Part One (2004), pp. 19-26
Southern Mesopotamia
- Al-Dafar, A., Shadow States: The Archaeology of Power in the Marshes of Southern Mesopotamia
New York: Stony Brook University 2015 - Albright, W.F., The Babylonian Antediluvian Kings
New Haven: American Oriental Society, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 43 (1923), pp. 323-329 - Gasche, H. and Tanret, M. (Eds.), Changing Watercourses In Babylonia: Towards A Reconstruction Of The Ancient Environment In Lower Mesopotamia Volume 1
Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago 1998 - George, A.R. Babylonian Topographical Texts
Kramer, S.N., History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Recorded History
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 1981 - Leuven: Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 40, Peeters 1992
- Liverani, M., Uruk: The First City
London: Equinox 1998 - Maspero, G. History Of Babylon & Assyria
London: Grolier Society 1903-1904 - Olmstead, A.T., The Babylonian Empire
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Jan., 1919), pp. 65-100 - Patterson, D.W., Elements Of The Neo-Sumerian Military (2018).Publicly Accessible Penn Dissertations. 3171. / https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/3171
- Pedersen, O., Waters At Babylon from A History of Water: Waters and Urbanization: Series III, Volume 1, 2014
- Roux, G, Ancient Iraq
London: Penguin 1992 - Ziegler, N. & Langlois, A-I., Les Toponymes Paleo-Babylonia de la Haute-Mesopotamie: La Haute-Mésopotamie au IIe millénaire av. J.-C. / SEPOA Book series: Institut des civilizations
Paris: Collège de France, 2017
Egypt & Nubia
- Breasted, J.H., A History of Egypt from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest
Independent, 2017 - Kendall, T., Kerma and the Kingdom of Kush, 2500-1500 B.C.: The Archaeological Discovery of an Ancient Nubian Empire
Oxford: Premiere Book Marketing 1997 - Taylor, J.H., Egypt and Nubia
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press 1991 - Ward, W.A., Egypt and the East Mediterranean World, 2200-1900 B.C.
Beirut: American University of Beirut 1971 - Wilkinson, T., The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Ancient Egypt (World of Art)
London: Thames and Hudson Ltd 2008 - James, T. G. H., & Davies, W. V., Egyptian Sculpture
London: British Museum Publications, 1983 - Kemp, B.J., Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilisation
London: Routledge 2005 - Redford, D.B., Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 1993 - Romer, J., A History of Ancient Egypt Volume 1: From the Great Pyramid to the Fall of the Middle Kingdom
New York: Thomas Dunne Books, MacMillan 2013 - Romer, J., A History of Ancient Egypt Volume 2: From the Great Pyramid to the Fall of the Middle Kingdom
New York: Thomas Dunne Books, MacMillan 2017 - Russmann, E.R., Eternal Egypt: Masterpieces of Ancient Art from the British Museum
Oakland, CA: University of California Press; Illustrated edition 2001 - Various: Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art 1999
Elam & Persia
- Cameron, G.C., History Of Early Iran
Chicago: University Of Chicago Press 1936 - Daryaee, T. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Iranian History
Oxford: Oxford University Press 2012 - Dandamaev, M.A. & Lukonin, V.G. The Culture and Social Institutions of Ancient Iran
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004 - De Graef, K. & Tavernier, J. (Eds.) Susa and Elam. Archaeological, Philological, Historical and Geographical Perspectives
Proceedings of the International Congress held at Ghent University, December 14-17, 2009 - De Graef, K., Dual Power In Susa: Chronicle Of A Transitional Period From Ur Iii Via Šimaški To The Sukkalmaḫs
London: Cambridge University Press on behalf of School of Oriental and African Studies, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 75, No. 3 (2012), pp. 525-546 - Dietz, O.E., Mesopotamian Nomads in the Third Millennium B.C. (Chapter) In: Nomads and Sedentary Peoples, Castillo, J.S. (Ed.)
Mexico City: Colegio de Mexico 1981 - Herzfeld, E.E., Archæological History Of Iran
London: Oxford University Press, The Sweich Lectures of The British Academy 1934 - Potts, D.T., The Archaeology of Elam: Formation and Transformation of an Ancient Iranian State
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1999
Gulf States
- Calvet, Y., Failaka And The Northern Part Of Dilmun
Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd., Proceedings Of The Seminar For Arabian Studies, Vol. 19, Proceedings Of The Twenty Second Seminar For Arabian Studies Held At Oxford On 26th – 28th July 1988 (1989), Pp. 5-11 - Petrie, C.A., Chaverdi, A.A., and Seyedin, M., From Anshan to Dilmun and Magan: The Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Kaftari and Kaftari-Related Ceramic Vessels
London: Taylor & Francis, Ltd., Iran, Vol. 43 (2005), pp. 49-86 - Potts, D.T., The Arabian Gulf in Antiquity: Volume I: From Prehistory to the Fall of the Achaemenid Empire
Oxford: Oxford University Press 1991 - Thapar, R., A Possible Identification of Meluḫḫa, Dilmun and Makan
Leiden: Brill, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Jan., 1975), pp. 1-42 - Thapar, R., The Dravidian Hypothesis for the Identification of Meluḫḫa, Dilmun and Makan
Leiden: Brill, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Vol. 26, No. 2 (1983), pp. 178-190
Hurrians
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Warminster: Aris & Philips 1989 - Matthews, D. & and Eidem, J., Tell Brak and Nagar
London: British Institute for the Study of Iraq, Iraq, Vol. 55 (1993), pp. 201-207 - Lacheman, E.R. & Owen, D. I., Nuzi and the Hurrians Vols 1-5
Pennsylvania: Eisenbrauns 1981 – 1995 - Cunningham, A., The Ancient Geography of India
London: Teubner & Co 1871
India &: Pakistan
- Haig, M.R., The Indus Delta Country
London: Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. 1894 - Holdich, T., The Gates of India
London: Macmillan & Co. 1913 - Magee, C.P, Knox R., Khan, F. & Thomas, K., The Achaemenid Empire in South Asia and Recent Excavations in Akra in Northwest
Pakistan
Chicago: American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 109, No. 4 (Oct., 2005), pp. 711-741
Levant
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New Haven: American Oriental Society, Journal of the American Oriental Society , Vol. 133, No. 4 (October-December 2013), pp. 651-657 - Lipiński, E. The Aramaeans: Their Ancient History, Culture, Religion
Leuven: Peeters 2001 - Lipiński, E. On the Skirts of Canaan in the Iron Age. Historical and Topographical Researches
Leuven: Peeters 2006, 484 pp. - Lipschitz, O. & Oeming, M. (eds.) Judah and the Judeans in the Persian Period
Pennsylvania, Eisenbrauns 2006 - Bacon, J. & Gilbert, M., The Illustrated Atlas of Jewish Civilization
London: MacMillan 1990
Media
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Jerusalem: Magnes 1991 - Medvedskaya, I. N., Media And Its Neighbours I: The Localization Of Ellipi
Gent: Extrait D’iranica Antiqua, Vol. Xxxiv, 1999 - Medvedskaya, I. N., Zamua, Inner Zamua and Mazamua
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Chicago: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The American Schools of Oriental Research, Journal of Cuneiform Studies, Vol. 38, No. 1 (Spring, 1986), pp. 107-119
Sea Peoples
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London: Lexington Books 2017 - Hitchcock, L.A., & Maeir, A.M., A Pirate’s Life for me: The Maritime Culture of the Sea Peoples
London: Routledge/ Taylor & Francis Group, Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 148:4, 245-264
Syria & Northern Mesopotamia
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Leiden: TCMA-Assyriologie, Faculty of the Humanities, Leiden University 2012 - Archi, A. and Biga, M.G., A Victory over Mari and the Fall of Ebla
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Huge thanks go to The School of Oriental And African Studies (SOAS), without whose Alumni Program I would have been unable to access the invaluable resources of both the SOAS Library and the JSTOR Archive.
Thanks also go to the following useful online resources:
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- https://commons.wikimedia.org
- https://www.metmuseum.org
- www.historyfiles.co.uk
- www.iranicaonline.org
- www.wikimapia.org
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- University College London. Assyrian Empire Builders: People Gods & Places