Mogens Trolle Larsen: 2 books
The Conquest of Assyria
Excavations in an Antique Land
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
The Conquest of Assyria tells what must surely be one of the most romantic tales of archaeological endeavour. The great cities and ancient palaces of Mesopotamia had lain buried for over two millenia, and were all but forgotten, half remembered in the Hebrew Bible and Classical texts. This volume...
Ancient Kanesh
A Merchant Colony in Bronze Age Anatolia
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
The ancient Anatolian city of Kanesh (present-day Kültepe, Turkey) was a continuously inhabited site from the early Bronze Age through Roman times. The city flourished c.2000–1750 BCE as an Old Assyrian trade outpost and the earliest attested commercial society in world history. More than 23,000...