Free Articles from Culture and History of the Ancient Near East

Free Articles from Culture and History of the Ancient Near East

With the publication of Keeping Watch in Babylon, Brill is happy to have published the 100th volume of the series Culture and History of the Ancient Near East.

To celebrate, we are offering a selection of free articles from some of the most successful volumes in the series.
Access to these articles will remain free until July 31st, 2019

Overturning Certainties in Near Eastern Archaeology (Volume: 90)

• Pointed Juglets as an International Trend in Late Bronze Ritual Practices: A View from Alalakh
  By: Murat Akar
  Pages: 1–24

• Demographic Trends in Early Mesopotamian Urbanism
  By: Guillermo Algaze
  Pages: 25–33

The Religious Aspects of War in the Ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome (Volume: 84)

• Introduction
  By: Krzysztof Ulanowski
  Pages: 1–2

• War in Mesopotamian Culture
  By: Pietro Mander
  Pages: 3–22

Historical and Archaeological Aspects of Egyptian Funerary Culture (Volume: 73)

• Introduction
  Pages: 1–3

• 1. Nomarchal Culture: Political, Administrative, Social, and Religious Aspects
  Pages: 4–58

The Dawn of the Bronze Age (Volume: 72)

• Chapter One: General Introduction
  Pages: 3–6

• Chapter Two: Geographical and Environmental Data
  Pages: 7–34

Sennacherib at the Gates of Jerusalem (Volume 71)

• 1. Sennacherib at the Gates of Jerusalem—Story, History and Historiography: An Introduction
  By: Isaac Kalimi and Seth Richardson
  Pages: 1–7

• 2. Sennacherib’s Campaign to Judah: The Chronicler’s View Compared with His ‘Biblical’ Sources
  By: Isaac Kalimi
  Pages: 9–50

The Decoration on the Cult Chapel Walls of the Old Kingdom Tombs at Giza (Volume: 70)

• I Architecture, Decoration and Interpretation
  By: Leo Roeten
  Pages: 1–31

• II Preliminary Considerations
  By: Leo Roeten
  Pages: 33–53

The Double Kingdom Under Taharqo (Volume: 69)

• I. Introduction
  By: Jeremy Pope
  Pages: xxii–3

• II. Meroë as a Problem of Twenty-Fifth Dynasty History
  By: Jeremy Pope
  Pages: 4–33

Pottery and Economy in Old Kingdom Egypt (Volume: 65)

• 1 Egyptian Economic History: Locating Power, Placing Agency
  Pages: 1–29

• 2 Wages and Payers
  Pages: 31–51

Luwian Identities (Volume: 64)

• Introduction
  By: Alice Mouton, Ian Rutherford and Ilya Yakubovich
  Pages: 1–21

• Luwians versus Hittites
  By: J. David Hawkins
  Pages: 23–40

Archaeology, Artifacts and Antiquities of the Ancient Near East (Volume: 62)

• Introduction
  Pages: 1–4

• The Tumuli at Sé Girdan: A Preliminary Report
  Pages: 9–41