Silver, Money and Credit? gathers a collection of contributions by leading specialists on the role of silver in Ancient Mesopotamia. The volume is a tribute to

This is a book about numbers – what they are as concepts and how and why they originate – as viewed through the material devices used to represent and manip

Markets emerge in recent historical research as important spheres of economic interaction in ancient societies. In the case of ancient Egypt, traditional models

Few studies focus on the modes of knowledge transmission (or concealment), or the trends of continuity or change from the Ancient to the Late Antique worlds. In

This book presents a reassessment of the governmental systems of the Late Babylonian period—specifically those of the Neo-Babylonian and early Persian empires