This is the first book to consider issues of gender and social identity across a broad temporal and geographical range of civilizations in the ancient Near East

A collection of essays on possible methodological and theoretical approaches to gender within the framework of ancient Near Eastern studies.

Provides a broad view of the history and current state of scholarship on the art of the ancient Near East This book covers the aesthetic traditions of Mesopotam

Economic history is well documented in Assyriology, thanks to the preservation of dozens of thousands of clay tablets recording administrative operations, contr

Women in the Ancient Near East offers a lucid account of the daily life of women in Mesopotamia from the third millennium BCE until the beginning of the Helleni