FIRST STEPS INTO THE ANCIENT WORLD

 

Discovering the world of Mesopotamia

General Introduction to Mesopotamia
Brief chronology of Mesopotamia - from 10,000 to 330 BCE
Overview of Assyrian History
The House of Sargon II (famous Assyrian Kings)

 

On Kingship in Ancient Mesopotamia

The making of a king by Professor Henri Frankfort
Sons of God - the ideology of Assyrian Kingship by Professor Simo Parpola
The murderer of Sennacherib by Professor Simo Parpola

 

Knowledge and Legacy of Mesopotamia

Mesopotamian and egyptian cosmology
Sumerian and Babylonian science
Overview of literature in Mesopotamia
Law in the ancient orient
The Code of Hammurabi

 

Learning the Language

Introduction to Akkadian (by R. Caplice)