This is an in-depth treatment of the antecedents and first flourescence of early state and urban societies in lowland Mesopotamia over nearly three ... perspectives to enrich our understanding of the ...

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The research conducted in Helsinki is particularly focused on Mesopotamia in the first millennium BCE. From 2018 to 2025, the University of Helsinki hosts Ancient Near Eastern Empires, a centre of ...

Ancient Empires is a relatively brief yet comprehensive and even-handed overview of the ancient Near East, the Mediterranean, and Europe, including the Greco-Roman world, Late Antiquity, and the early ...

"Even in ancient Mesopotamia, there was a rough understanding ... literature and early historical and mathematical texts. Ancient Near Eastern texts have never been studied in this way, by ...