Five Empires in Ancient Mesopotamia

The Assyrian Empire was the first of five empires that emerged in the Near East in the first millennium BCE; it was succeeded by the Neo-Babylonian, Persian, Seleucid, and Parthian Empires. Based on a set of uniquely rich sources, this co-authored volume traces the history of imperialism in Western Asia by focusing on Mesopotamia, center of the first imperial states but later subjected to imperial rule by foreigners.

Auteur

Rocío Da Riva, University of Barcelona, Eckart Frahm, Yale University, Kathryn Stevens, Oxford, Caroline Waerzeggers, Leiden University