Ancient Near East is the birthplace of agriculture, great empires, cities, sciences, arts, mathematics, astronomy, and early writing systems. The present-day Near East is the cradle of the world's ...

The ancient Near East, a region extending from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea to present-day Afghanistan, was home to several of the world's oldest civilizations. Favored with an ...

Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament with Supplement Edited by James B. Pritchard This anthology brought together the most important historical, legal, mythological, liturgical, ...