This book brings together the work of forty-eight geodesists from twenty-five countries.

This study provides the archaeological record and pictorial documentation of ornamental wall painting produced for Assyrian royal residences.

In the third edition of A Grammar of Akkadian, changes have been made in the section on the nom i n al morpheme -ån (§20.2) and the sections on the meaning of the D stem (§24.3) and the Gt stem (§33.1(b)); these revisions reflect recent ...

The third and final volume is linked with the preceding volumes mainly by the graphic and descriptive documentation of the tombs of the Achaemenid monarhs at Naqsh-i Rustam, and Persepolis, by a study of the excavated Achaemenid Tower at ...

The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Iran fills a gap in the literature of the ancient Near East, providing up-to-date, authoritative essays by leading specialists on a wide range of historical, archaeological, and philological topics extending ...

This important book shows the inability of revisionism to explain why millions are moved to act in defence of political causes, and why specific political currents emerge, and is a significant reassertion of the concept of revolution in ...

One of the giants - Ogias - fought a great dragon. An apocryphal expansion of an obscure verse in Genesis, "The Book of Giants: The Fallen Angels and Their Giant Sons" was composed prior to the 2nd century BCE.