Download or read book Dilmun Discovered written by Michael Rice and published by Department of Antiquities and Meseums State of Bahrain. This book was released on 1984 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Looking for Dilmun written by Geoffrey Bibby and published by Stacey International Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dilmun features both in Mesopotamian myth, as a blessed land where death is unknown, and in the trade records of the Mesopotamian city of Ur as a real place, the source of Ur's copper supplies. The quest for the real Dilmun began in a relatively light-hearted way in 1953, when Geoffrey Bibby seized the opportunity to revisit Bahrain, in order to explore the thousands of undated burial mounds that decorate the Bahraini landscape. A brief season's digging was enough to establish the existence of a major civilization dating from around 2300 BC, contemporary with Ur and Babylon and showing evidence of trade with the Indus Valley civilization. Thus began a major undertaking, eventually encompassing more than 20 annual expeditions. These revealed the existence of cities and temples not only on Bahrain, but along 250 miles of coast and islands as far north as Kuwait and extending 60 miles into the interior of Saudi Arabia, as well as a second and earlier civilization some 300 miles east, in Oman, which Bibby identified with the legendary copper-rich land of Makan. And the final extraordinary revelation was the discovery in Saudi Arabia of pottery contemporary with the very earliest Stone Age settlements in Mesopotamia, c.5000 BC, extending the early history of the Gulf region back by over 1000 years and raising the possibility that Mesopotamia was first settled from Arabia.
Download or read book Dilmun Temple at Saar written by Crawford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Dilmun Culture written by ʻAlī Akbar Bū Shahrī and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dilmun written by Yaqoob Yawar and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indus Valley Civilization is one of the most important discoveries of the twentieth century. A lot has been discovered so far regarding the physical culture, including its planned stylethe cities, roads, dwellings, wells, baths, utensils, tools, mukta, metal, earthen statuesthat tell us a lot about this civilization, which is the background of this novel. The plot revolves around a young woman who allegedly killed a man. This allegation is true, but why all this happened, how the interpretation of what happened in a male-dominated society, and what kind of situation the woman had to face is what Dilmun is about. Was that woman innocent even after the murder?
Download or read book The Archaeology of the Arabian Gulf written by Michael Rice and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-03-11 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The archaeological remains in the Gulf area are astounding, and still relatively unexplored. Michael Rice has produced the first up-to-date book, which encompasses all the recent work in the area. He shows that the Gulf has been a major channel of commerce for millenia, and that its ancient culture was rich and complex, to be counted with its great contempororaries in Sumer, Egypt and south-west Persia.
Download or read book Street Art in the Middle East written by Sabrina de Turk and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 2011 Arab Spring street art has been a vehicle for political discourse in the Middle East, and has generated much discussion in both the popular media and academia. Yet, this conversation has generalised street art and identified it as a singular form with identical styles and objectives throughout the region. Street art's purpose is, however, defined by the socio-cultural circumstances of its production. Middle Eastern artists thus adopt distinctive methods in creating their individual work and responding to their individual environments. Here, in this new book, Sabrina De Turk employs rigorous visual analysis to explore the diversity of Middle Eastern street art and uses case studies of countries as varied as Egypt, Tunisia, Lebanon, Palestine, Bahrain and Oman to illustrate how geographic specifics impact upon its function and aesthetic. Her book will be of significant interest to scholars specialising in art from the Middle East and North Africa and those who bring an interdisciplinary perspective to Middle East studies.
Download or read book The Islamic Funerary Inscriptions of Bahrain Pre 1317 AH 1900 AD written by Timothy Insoll and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In, The Islamic Funerary Inscriptions of Bahrain, an illustrated catalogue of 150 gravestones with modern Arabic transcription and English translation is provided with discussion of gravestone chronology, types, manufacture, decoration, iconography, inscription content, archaeological context, history of research, and contemporary significance and conservation issues.
Download or read book Art of the First Cities written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2003 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog of an exhibition being held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from May 8 to Aug. 17, 2003.
Download or read book First Writers The Sumerians written by Gary Arthur Thomson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-11-04 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sumerians were the ?rst people to write. Using a sharp three-cornered stylus, they wrote on claysmall wedge-shapes called cuneiform. With writing, Sumerians turned the corner from prehistory to history! After at least two million years of humans telling stories, the Sumerians introduced literacy. Most civilizations passed down their heritage through orally recited traditionsstories were passed from one generation to another by word of mouth. The Sumerians were the ?rst to write down their oral traditions. To make the historical record easier, the Sumerians invented calendars with exact dates of events and contracts often corroborated by astronomy. Since Sumerian farmers invented irrigation and created a surplus, other Sumerians could choose to specialize in law, education, architecture, engineering, marketing, and politicsall of which were accompanied by written records. Using the writings of the Sumerians and modern archaeology, this book will trace the story of the Sumerians, the worlds ?rst writers.
Download or read book JPSC Jharkhand Public Service Commission General Studies Preliminary Examination 2024 Paper I Paper II written by Dr. Manish Rannjan, IAS and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-01-19 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The presented book JPSC General Studies Preliminary Examination-2024: Paper-I & Paper-II thoroughly written on the basis of latest syllabus. The book is divided into two main parts: Paper-I General Studies-I and Paper-II General Studies-II. In part-I of the book subjects comprise as History of India, Geography of India, Indian Polity & Governance, Economic & Sustainable development, Science & Technology, National & International Current Events and General Questions of Miscellaneous Nature. In part-II the book deals with all about Jharkhand as History of Jharkhand, Jharkhand Movement, Unique Identity of Jharkhand, Folk Culture, Dance, Music, Instruments, Tourist Places, Jharkhand Literature and Litterateur, Major Educational Institute, Sports, Land Related Law, History of Economic Development, Major Schemes, Forest management, Wild life, Conservation work, Environment, Adaptation, Disaster Management, Miscellaneous Fact along with Current Event, etc. The book has taken into consideration the most of the core topics of aspirants. The book is extremely useful for the candidates preparing competitive exams and wishing to achieve the goal with high dreams.
Download or read book Paradise Interpreted written by Gerard P. Luttikhuizen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-01-08 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study on the representations of Paradise in the Hebrew Bible (Genesis 2-3 and Ezekiel 28) also deals with the reception of the biblical accounts in early Jewish writings (Enochic texts, the Book of Jubilees, Qumran texts) in Rabbinics and Kabbalah, early mainstream Christianity and in early Christian apocryphal and Gnostic literature. Two further chapters are devoted to views of Paradise in the Christian Middle Ages. The volume concludes with the interpretation of Paradise in John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost.
Download or read book Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 49 2019 written by Daniel Eddisford and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanities studies on the Arabian Peninsular including anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art, epigraphy, ethnography, history, language, linguistics, literature, numismatics, theology, and more, from the earliest times to the present day or, in the fields of political and social history, to around the end of the Ottoman Empire.
Download or read book Cultures in Contact written by Joan Aruz and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2013 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exhibition "Beyond Babylon : Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C.," held in 2008 - 2009 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, demonstrated the cultural enrichment that emerged from the intensive interaction of civilizations from western Asia to Egypt and the Aegean in the Middle and Late Bronze Ages. During this critical period in human history, powerful kingdoms and large territorial states were formed. Rising social elites created a demand for copper and tin, as well as for precious gold and silver and exotic materials such as lapis lazuli and ivory to create elite objects fashioned in styles that reflected contacts with foreign lands. This quest for metals--along with the desire for foreign textiles--was the driving force that led to the establishment of merchant colonies and a vast trading network throughout central Anatolia during the early second millennium B.C. Texts from palaces at sites from Hattusa (modern Bogazköy) in Hittite Anatolia to Amarna in Egypt attest to the volume and variety of interactions that took place some centuries later, creating the impetus for the circulation of precious goods, stimulating the exchange of ideas, and inspiring artistic creativity. Perhaps the most dramatic evidence for these far-flung connections emerges out of tragedy--the wreckage of the oldest known seagoing ship, discovered in a treacherous stretch off the southern coast of Turkey near the promontory known as Uluburun. Among its extraordinary cargo of copper, glass, and exotic raw materials and luxury goods is a gilded bronze statuette of a goddess--perhaps the patron deity on board, who failed in her mission to protect the ship. To explore the themes of the exhibition--art, trade, and diplomacy, viewed from an international perspective--a two-day symposium and related scholarly events allowed colleagues to explore many facets of the multicultural societies that developed in the second millennium B.C. Their insights, which dramatically illustrate the incipient phases of our intensely interactive world, are presented largely in symposium order, beginning with broad regional overviews and examination of particular archeological contexts and then drawing attention to specific artists and literary evidence for interconnections. In this introduction, however, their contributions are viewed from a somewhat more synthetic perspective, one that focuses attention on the ways in which ideas in this volume intersect to enrich the ongoing discourse on the themes elucidated in the exhibition.
Download or read book Gulf Conference on Sustainable Built Environment written by Ali Bumajdad and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together outstanding contributions to the Gulf Conference on Sustainable Built Environment, held at the Marina Hotel Kuwait, near Kuwait City. The Proceedings collects 29 papers on a range of engineering and materials challenges, and best practices, addressing development of new sustainable building materials, performance improvement of structures and tall buildings, developing monitoring and analysis techniques and frameworks for existing infrastructure under environmental effects, development of long-term sustainability plans for building stock, and development of energy efficient buildings in the gulf region. The Conference was organized by the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, and Kuwait University.
Download or read book Creation Stories of the Middle East written by Ewa Wasilewska and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive study explores the region's 'forgotten' narratives, myths and traditions. Drawing on stories from Ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia, Syria-Palestine and Persia, Wasilewska shows how these narratives of creation, destruction and rebirth reach to the very roots of the Biblical and Quranic Genesis.
Download or read book Lost Cities Ancient Mysteries of Africa Arabia written by David Hatcher Childress and published by Adventures Unlimited Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Childress as he discovers forbidden cities in the Empty Quarter of Arabia, 'Atlantean' ruins in Egypt and the Kalahari desert; a mysterious, ancient empire in the Sahara; and more. This is an extraordinary life on the road: across war torn countries Childress searches for King Solomon's Mines, living dinosaurs, the Ark of the Covenant and the solutions to the fantastic mysteries of the past.
