Cities and the shaping of memory in the ancient Near East / Omur Harmansah.

"This book investigates the founding and building of cities in the ancient Near East. The creation of new cities was imagined as an ideological project or a divine intervention in the political narratives and mythologies of Near Eastern cultures, often masking the complex processes behind the s...

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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:xix, 351 p. :; ill., map.
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