Ancient Near East is the birthplace of agriculture, great empires, cities, sciences, arts, mathematics, astronomy, and early writing systems. The present-day Near East is the cradle of the world's ...
The Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires marshals a cross-disciplinary arsenal of methods and scholars, working through the Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, Persian, Hellenistic, and ...
Archery was integral to the military strategies of empires and ... forces of the Ancient Near East, evolving from a hunting tool to a significant instrument of war. Early Sumerians, Assyrians ...
The Persian Empire: Asia & Egypt: Originally founded by Cyrus the Great in 559 BC, the Persian Empire succeeded the Babylonian Empire in becoming the dominant power of the Near East. Drawing on ...