This chronologically structured ancient history course examines cultures around the world but also draws comparisons among …

ancient world combined. Even if the lopsided distribution of resources is, in large part, a matter of institutional iner-tia, the battle over …

From “The Hittite Laws,” trans. Albrecht Goetze, in Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, 3rd ed. with supple …

It covers the geographical, ecological, and linguistic backgrounds, and looks at specific cultures of the Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and …

In the ancient cities the law condemned those guilty of great crimes to a terrible punishment — the privation of burial. In this manner …

It was a publication of some Twelfth Dynasty copies of the ancient Pyramid Texts.

Modern scientific archaeology has three primary objectives: to study the basic culture history of prehistoric times, to reconstruct …