Ancient Iraq - DK Eyewitness-Philip Steele.pdf - Mesopotamia - simonrodnip55

ANCIENT IRAQ

Eyewitness

Mesopotamian account tablet in cuneiform

script, c. 2050 bce

Spinning with a drop spindle, a

tool used in Sumer before 2000 bce

Leaf and

fruits of the

date palm, native

to the Fertile Crescent

Engraved cylinder seal (right), c. 3000 bce , and its impression (above), showing a shrine and two gazelles

Pear, a fruit grown

in Mesopotamia’s

irrigated gardens

Eyewitness

ANCIENT IRAQ

Thyme, used by

Babylonian physicians

as an antiseptic

Written by

PHILIP STEELE

Model planked wheel, the same design used for early

Mesopotamian wheels, c. 3200 bce

Wheat, first farmed

in Mesopotamia

before 9500 bce

London, new York,

MeLbourne, Munich, and deLhi

Consultant Dr Eleanor Robson

Project editor Clare Hibbert

Art editor Neville Graham

Senior art editor David Ball

Managing editor Camilla Hallinan

Managing art editor Martin Wilson

Publishing manager Sunita Gahir

Category publisher Andrea Pinnington

Picture research Claire Bowers, Sarah Hopper, Rose Horridge

Production controller Angela Graef

Jacket designer Neal Cobourne

Jacket editor Adam Powley

Skull of a wild goat, an animal domesticated in

Mesopotamia c. 8000 bce

Raw lapis lazuli

DK DELHI

Head of publishing Aparna Sharma

Senior designer Romi Chakraborty

DTP designer Govind Mittal

First published in Great Britain in 2007 by

Dorling Kindersley Limited,

80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL

A Penguin Company

2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1

ED492 – 04/07

Silver drinking horn from

Susa, fifth century bce

stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means,

electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise,

without the prior written permission of the copyright owner.

A trowel, hand pick, and brush, all tools

of the archaeologist

A CIP catalogue record for this book

is available from the British Library.

ISBN: 978-1-40531-858-7

Colour reproduction by Colourscan, Singapore

Printed and bound by Toppan Printing Co., (Shenzhen) Ltd, China

Dates in this book are given as bce (Before Common Era,

comparable to years bc or Before Christ) and ce (Common

Era, comparable to years after ad or Anno Domini )

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Pomegranate and pistachio nuts,

fruits of Mesopotamian gardens

An Assyrian king in his hunting chariot

Ancient Iraq - DK Eyewitness-Philip Steele.pdf

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