A COMPANION TO THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST
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0-631-23293-1
Black well Publishing
2005
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loginThe history of the Ancient Near Eastern civilizations is very long: its time-span fromthe late fourth to the late first millenniumBCEis equal to or even longer than the restof history, from the collapse of the Near Eastern cultures to our own time. It is correctto use the label ‘‘the first half of history.’’ We could even say ‘‘of our history,’’ becausethis long trajectory is now considered part and even the very foundation of our own‘‘Western’’ history – not like other more remote civilizations in India or China orelsewhere
