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The site of Tell al-Hiba, ancient Lagash, at over 600 hectares, is one of the largest mounds in southern Mesopotamia. It was occupied from the fifth millennium into the middle of the second millennium BCE. A joint project of the Penn Museum, Cambridge University and the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage in Baghdad, begun in 2019, has ...
Read the Code of Manu (c. 200 BCE) excerpts in the chapter Identify each of the following behaviors as either "acceptable" or "not acceptable" according to this primary source. Acceptable. -A woman's husband left home for a religious pilgrimage 10 years ago and never returned. She remarries. -A healthy woman gave birth to four daughters and no ...
But it wasn’t actually written down until after 500 BCE. Rather, from as early as the beginning of the second millennium BCE, these hymns were orally composed and transmitted by Aryan poet-seers, eventually becoming the preserve of a few priestly clans who utilized them for the specific religious function of pleasing higher powers.
PREFACE This third and inal volume of the inal reports on the excavations at Timnah (Tel Batash) between the years 1977 and 1989 presents the inds from the second millennium BCE (Strata XII–V). This is one of the richest known sequences of stratiied inds in the Land of Israel, spanning a period of about 700 years, from the Middle Bronze IIB ...
The ruler’s primary obligations were to lead in battle, to ensure the favor of the gods through temple building and regular offerings, to maintain the city walls and irrigation canals for agriculture, and to enforce justice. Figure 6.1.6 6.1. 6: Stele of Ushumgal and Shara-igizi-Abzu, 2900–2700 BCE.
Ban Chiang, however, is the most thoroughly documented site and has the clearest evidence of metallurgy when in Southeast Asia. With a rough date range from the late 3rd millennium BC to the first millennium AD, this site alone has artefacts such as burial pottery (dating from 2100 to 1700 BC) and fragments of bronze and copper-base bangles.
Beyond Babylon: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C. brings into focus the cultural enrichment shared by civilizations from western Asia to Egypt and the Aegean more than three thousand years ago during the Middle Bronze and Late Bronze Ages. With the formation of powerful kingdoms and large territorial states, rising social elites created a demand for precious metals and ...
