The A to Z of Mesopotamia

by Gwendolyn Leick

The Greek name Mesopotamia means "land between the rivers." The Romans used this term for an area that they controlled only briefly (between 115 and 117 A.D.): the land between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, from the south Anatolian mountains ranges to the Persian Gulf. It comprises the civilizations of Sumer and Akkad (third millennium B.C.) as well as the later Babylonian and Assyrian empires of the second and first millennium. Although...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810875772
• ISBN13: 9780810875777
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.4"