Cultures of the Ancient East

1. Historical geography of Ancient East (Levant, Egypt, Mesopotamia, India)
2. History of development of the civilisations of Ancient East (formation of city-states and territorial states, urbanisation and architecture, codes, development of scripts and alphabets)
3. Economy (farming, crafts, technology, trade, monetary systems)
4. Social history of Ancient East
5. Major religious systems in Ancient East
6. Artistic representations and applied art
7. Heritage and significance of Ancient East cultures
8. Sources for studying Ancient East cultures

MAISELS, Charles Keith, Early civilisations of the Old World: The formative histories of Egypt, the Levant, Mesopotamia, India and China / Charles Keith Maisels. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2001. - XVI, 479 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 17902946
ANCIENT Egypt : a social history / B.G. Trigger ... [et al.]. - Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1983. - XIII, 450 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 37818466
CRAWFORD, Harriet E. W. Sumer and the Sumerians / Harriet Crawford. - 2nd ed. - Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. - X, 252 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 31055458
KUHRT, Amélie, The ancient Near East : c. 3000-300 BC / Amélie Kuhrt. - Reprinted. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2002. - 2 zv. (XXVIII, 381 str.; XIX, 401 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 17901410
POLLOCK, Susan, Ancient Mesopotamia : the Eden that never was / Susan Pollock. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999. - XII, 259 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 905824
The OXFORD handbook of the archaeology of the Levant : c. 8000-332 BCE / edited by Margreet L. Steiner and Ann E. Killebrew. - 1st ed. - Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2014. - XXI, 885 str. (izbrani teksti po potrebi) COBISS.SI-ID - 57248098
The CAMBRIDGE ancient history. Vol. 1, Egypt and Babylonia to 1580 b.C. / edited by J. B. Bury, S. A. Cook, F. E. Adcock. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1924. - XXXVIII, 704 str.; Vol. 3, The Assyrian empire / edited by J. B. Bury, S. A. Cook, F. E. Adcock. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1954. - XXXV, 821 str.; Vol. 4, The Persian Empire and the West / edited by J. B. Bury, S. A. Cook, F. E. Adcock, Cambridge : University Press, 1953. - XXIII, 698 str. (izbrani teksti po potrebi) COBISS.SI-ID - 8532322 in COBISS.SI-ID - 8532578 in COBISS.SI-ID – 8532834
HOOKER, J.T. Reading the past: ancient writing from cuneiform to the alphabet, London : British Museum Press, 1990 COBISS.SI-ID – 12955234
MATTHEWS, Roger. The Archaeology of Mesopotamia: Theories and Approaches, Routledge. 2003. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203390399
HELLMUTH KRAMBERGER, Anja, Arheologija Starega Bližnjega vzhoda: od predkeramičnega neolitika do konca zgodnje bronaste dobe, Ljubljana : Alma Mater Europaea, Fakulteta za humanistični študij - Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis, 2023. COBISS.SI-ID - 139844611
SALZMANN, Eveline. 2019. Silver, Copper and Bronze in Early Dynastic Ur, Mesopotamia. A High-Resolution Analysis Approach. Der Anschnitt, Beiheft 41. Bochum: Deutsches Bergbau-Museum. COBISS.SI-ID – 57312771
Die Hethiter und ihr Reich : das Volk der 1000 Götter, Stuttgart : Theiss, 2002. COBISS.SI-ID - 20503341
Die ältesten Monumente der Menschheit : vor 12.000 Jahren in Anatolien, Karlsruhe : Badischen Landesmuseum Karlsruhe ; Stuttgart : K. Theiss : Ministerium für Kultur und Turismus der Republik Türkei, 2007. COBISS.SI-ID - 6218336
Priporočena literatura:
CRÜSEMANN, Nicola, Margarete VAN ESS, Markus HILGERT in Beate SALJE (ur.). 2013. Uruk - 5000 Jahre Megacity: Begleitband zu den gleichnamigen Ausstellungen in den Staatliche Museen zu Berlin vom 25. April bis 8. September 2013 und in den Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Mannheim vom 20. Oktober 2013 bis 21. April 2014. Publikation der Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen 58. Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag.
YALÇIN, Ünsal (ur.). 2018. Anatolian Metal VIII: Eliten – Handwerk – Prestigegüter. Der Anschnitt, Beiheft 39. Bochum: Deutsches Bergbau-Museum.
ORTHMANN, Winfried. 1975. Der alte Orient. Propyläen Kunstgeschichte 18. Berlin: Propyläen Verlag.
KORFMANN, Manfred O. (ur.) 2006. Troia. Archäologie eines Siedlungshügels und seiner Landschaft. Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern.
ROAF, Michael. 1990. Cultural atlas of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East. New York: Facts on File.
STROMMENGER, Eva. 1980. Habuba Kabira: Eine Stadt vor 5000 Jahren: Ausgrabungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft am Euphrat in Habuba Kabira, Syrien. Mainz: Philipp von Zabern.
CURTIS, John, An Examination of Late Assyrian Metalwork with special references to Nimrud. Havertown : Oxbow Books, 2013.
AL-MAQDISSI, Michel, Daniele MORANDI BONACOSSI in Peter PFÄLZNER, Schätze des Alten Syrien. Die Entdeckung des Königreichs Qatna. Stuttgart: Landesmuseum Württemberg, 2009.

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Listed texts are synthetic historical works and discuss the same topic. Thus students should consult primarily the chosen topics according to the lecture contents or professor’s suggestions.