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General

  • Aruz, J & Wallenfels, R. (eds.), Art Of The First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. From The Mediterranean To The Indus
    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

Achaemedid 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

  • Chronology of the expedition of Alexander the Great into Asia – Wikipedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_the_expedition_of_Alexander_the_Great_into_Asia
  • Arrian, The Anabasis Of Alexander
    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)
    http://www.irjabs.com
  • Nawotka, K., Alexander the Great
    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

  • Recent Developments in Hittite Archaeology and History: Papers in Memory of Hans G. Güterbock
    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

  • Wilhelm, G. The Hurrians
    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

  • Ayali-Darshan, N., Baal, Son of Dagan: In Search of Baal’s Double Paternity
    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

  • Diakonoff, I., Cogan, M. & Eph’al, I. (eds.) Studies In Assyrian History And Ancient Near Eastern Historiography Presented To Hayim Tadmor; Chapter: Cities Of The Medes
    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
    in: R. Dittmann et al. , Hrsg., Variatio Delectat. Iran und der Westen. Gedenkschrift für Peter Calmeyer (AOAT 272). Münster, 2000, pp. 429-445
  • Brown, S. C., Media and Secondary State Formation in the Neo-Assyrian Zagros: An Anthropological Approach to an Assyriological Problem

    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

  • Emanuel, J.P., Black Ships and Sea Raiders: The Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Context of Odysseus’ Second Cretan Lie
    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

  • Ahmed, K.M. The Beginnings Of Ancient Kurdistan (c. 2500-1500 BC) : A Historical And Cultural Synthesis
    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
    Chicago: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The American Schools of Oriental Research, Journal of Cuneiform Studies, Vol. 55 (2003), pp. 1-44
  • Bell, G.L., The East Bank of the Euphrates from Tel Ahmar to Hit
    London: The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), The Geographical Journal, Vol. 36, No. 5 (Nov., 1910), pp. 513-537
  • Chavalas, M., Terqa and the Kingdom of Khana
    Chicago: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The American Schools of Oriental Research/ The Biblical Archaeologist, Vol. 59, No. 2 (Jun., 1996), pp. 90-103
  • Finkelstein, J. J., Subartu and Subarians in Old Babylonian Sources
    Chicago: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The American Schools of Oriental Research, Journal of Cuneiform Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1 (1955), pp. 1-7
  • Hallo, W.W., The Road to Emar
    Chicago: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The American Schools of Oriental Research, Journal of Cuneiform Studies, Vol. 18, No. 3 (1964), pp. 57-88
  • Lloyd, S., Some Ancient Sites in the Sinjar District
    London: British Institute for the Study of Iraq/ Iraq, Vol. 5 (1938), pp. 123-142
  • Oates, D., The Excavations at Tell al Rimah, 1967
    London: British Institute for the Study of Iraq/ Iraq, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Autumn, 1968), pp. 115-138
  • Podany, A.H., A Middle Babylonian Date for the Ḫana Kingdom
    Boston: The American Schools of Oriental Research, Journal of Cuneiform Studies, Vol. 43/45 (1991 – 1993), pp. 53-62
  • Radner, K. How To Reach The Upper Tigris: The Route Through The Tūr-Abdīn
    Helsinki: State Archives of Assyria Bulletin, Volume XV, 2006
  • Russell, H. F., The Historical Geography of the Euphrates and Habur According to the Middle- and Neo-Assyrian Sources
    London: British Institute for the Study of Iraq/ Iraq, Vol. 47 (1985), pp. 57-74
  • Weiss, H., Excavations At Tell Leilan And The Origins Of North Mesopotamian Cities In The Third Millennium B.C.
    Paris: Paleorient and CNRS Editions, Paléorient, Vol. 9, No. 2 (1983), pp. 39-52
  • Weiss, H., Rediscovering: Tell Leilan on the Habur Plains of Syria
    Chicago: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The American Schools of Oriental Research/ The Biblical Archaeologist, Vol. 48, No. 1 (Mar., 1985), pp. 5-34
  • Wilkinson, T.J., The Development of Settlement in the North Jazira between the 7th and 1st Millennia BC
    London: British Institute for the Study of Iraq/ Iraq, Vol. 52 (1990), pp. 49-62
  • Wilkinson, T.J., Peltenburg, E.and Wilkinson, E.B. (Eds.), Carchemish In Context: The Land Of Carchemish Project, 2006–2010
    Oxford: Oxbow Books 2016

Urartu

  • Benedict, W.C., Urartians and Hurrians
    New Haven: American Oriental Society, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 80, No. 2 (Apr. – Jun., 1960), pp. 100-104
  • Kroll, S. et al. (Eds.), Biainili-Urartu: The Proceedings Of The Symposium Held In Munich 12-14 October 2007
    Leuven: Peeters 2012
  • Kroll E.S., The Urartian Presence in the Lake Urmia Region
    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen
  • Sayce, A.H., The Kingdom of Van (Urartu)
    Cambridge: Chapter VIII from The Cambridge Ancient History, vol. xx The Assyrian Empire part I, 1925, pp. 169-186
  • Sevin, V., The Origins of the Urartians in the Light of the Van/Karagündüz Excavations

    Anatolian Studies, Vol. 49, Anatolian Iron Ages 4. Proceedings of the Fourth Anatolian Iron Ages Colloquium Held at Mersin, 19-23 May 1997 (1999), pp. 159-164
    Ankara: British Institute at Ankara

Zagros

  • Alibaigi, S., Aminikhan, N. and Fatahi, F., In Search Of Harhar (The Neo- Assyrian Kar-Sarrukin) In The Central Zagros Mountains, Western Iran: A New Proposal
    London: The British Institute of Persian Studies 2016
  • Danti, M.D., Searching For The Kingdom Of Musasir
    Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, The Rowanduz Archaeological Program, Expedition Magazine Winter 2014
  • Marf, D.A., The City and the Temple of Musasir/Ardini: New Aspects in the light of new Archaeological Evidence
    Erbil: Salahaddin University, Subartu Journal, Vol. VIII, 2014
  • Postgate, J.N., The Assyrian Army in Zamua
    London: British Institute for the Study of Iraq/ Iraq, Vol. 62 (2000), pp. 89-108
  • Smith, S., Notes on the Gutian Period
    Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, No. 2 (Apr., 1932), pp. 295-308
  • Young, T.C., Jr., The Iranian Migration into the Zagros
    London: Taylor & Francis, Ltd., Iran, Vol. 5 (1967), pp. 11-34

Online

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.

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