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Full List of Readings (Post 1 of 2)
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Lecture 1 Uncovering Near Eastern Civilization
Cathcart, Kevin J. “The Earliest Contributions to the Decipherment of Sumerian and Akkadian.” Cuneiform Digital Library Journal 2011:1, pp. 1-12.
Chavalas, Mark W. “Terqa and the Kingdom of Khana.” Biblical Archaeologist 59/2 (1996), pp. 90-103.
Robinson, Andrew. Lost Languages
Walker, Cuneiform

Lecture 2 Natufian Villagers and Early Settlements
Akkermans and Schwartz, The Archaeology of Syria, chapters 2 and 3
Ammerman and Cavalli-Sforza, The Neolithic Transition and the Genetics of Populations in Europe
Bar Yosef and Valla eds., The Natufian Culture in the Levant
Bryner, Jeanna. “Female Shaman s Grave Loaded with Goodies.” Live Science , November 3, 2008
Curry, Andrew. “Gobekli Tepe: The World’s First Temple?” Smithsonian Magazine , November 2008
Diamond, Jared. “The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race.” In Discover , May 1, 1999

Lecture 3 Neolithic Farming, Trade, and Pottery
Akkermans and Schwartz, The Archaeology of Syria, chapters 3 and 4 .
Banning, E. B. “The Neolithic Period: Triumps of Architecture, Agriculture, and Art.” Near Eastern Archaeology 61/4 (1998), pp. 188-237
Byrd, Brian V. “The Natufian: Settlement Variability and Economic Adaptations in the Levant at the End of the Pleistocene.” Journal of World Prehistory 3/2 (June 1989), pp. 159-197.
Hodder, The Leopard’s Tale
Moore, Andrew M. T. “Syria and the Origins of Agriculture.” In Weiss 1985, pp. 50-57
Peregrine and Ember, eds., The Encyclopedia of Prehistory, volume 8
Rose, Jeffrey I. “New Light on Human Prehistory in the Arabo-Persian Gulf Oasis.” In Current Anthropology 51, no. 6 (2010), pp. 849-883
Simmons, Alan H. et al. “Ain Ghazal: A Major Neolithic Settlement in Central Jordan.” Science 240 (April 1, 1988), pp. 35-39
Troy, Christopher S. et al. “Genetic Evidence for Near-Eastern Origins of European Cattle.” Nature 410 (2001), pp. 1088-1091
Wengrow, David. “‘The Changing Face of Clay’: Continuity and Change in the Transition from Village to Urban Life in the Near East" in Antiquity 12 (1998), pp. 783-795

Lecture 4 Eridu and Other Towns in the Ubaid Period
Bahrani, “The Search for Origins” in Art of Mesopotamia
Carter, Robert. “Boat Remains and Maritime Trade in the Persian Gulf during the Sixth and Fifth Millennia BC" Antiquity 80 (2006), pp. 52-63
Charvat, Mesopotamia Before History
Kubba, Shamil. “The Ubaid Period: Evidence of Architectural Planning and the Use of a Standard Unit of Measurement.” Paleorient 16/1 (1990), pp. 45-55
Lawlor, Andrew. “Report of Oldest Boat Hints at Early Trade Routes.” Science 296 (2002), pp. 1791-1792.
Nieuwenhuyse et a I., eds., Interpreting the Late Neolithic of Upper Mesopotamia
Nissen, The Early History of the Ancient Near East
Oates, Joan et al. “Early Mesopotamian Urbanism: A New View from the North.” Antiquity 81 (2006), pp. 585-600.
Rothman, Mitchell S. “Tepe Gawra.” In Meyers 1997, volume 5, pp. 183-186
Wilford, John Noble. “Civilization’s Cradle Grows Larger.” The New York Times , May 28, 2002

Lecture 5 Uruk, the Worlds Biggest City
Akkermans. and Schwartz, The Archaeology of Syria, chapter 6
Algaze, The Uruk World System
---, Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization
ColIon, First Impressions
Crawford, Sumer and the Sumerians
Glassner, The Invention of Cuneiform
Lawlor, Andrew. “The Everlasting City.” Archaeology (September/October 2013), pp. 26-32
Rothman, ed., Uruk Mesopotamia and Its Neighbors
Walker, Cuneiform

Lecture 6 Mesopotamia’s First Kings and the Military
Andre-Salvini, Beatrice. “Tello (Ancient Girsu).” In Aruz 2003, pp. 68-69
Archi, Alfonso “Ebla Texts.” In Meyers 1997, volume 2, pp. 184-186
----. “The Royal Archives of Ebla.” In Ebla to Damascus: Art and Archaeology of Ancient Syria , edited by Harvey Weiss, pp. 140-148
----. “Trade and Administrative Practice: The Case of Ebla,” Altorientalische Forschungen 20/1 (1993), pp. 43-58
Aruz, ed Art of the First Cities
Cooper, Jerrold S. “International Law in the Third Millennium.” in Westbrook 2003, volume 1, pp. 241-251
---, Reconstructing History from Ancient Inscriptions
Magid, Glenn. “Sumerian Early Dynastic Royal Inscriptions.” in Chavalas 2006, 4-16.
Matthiae, Paolo. “Ebla.” In Aruz 2008, pp. 34-41.
----. “Ebla.” In Meyers 1997, volume 2, pp. 180-184.
----. “Ebla and the Early Urbanization of Syria.” In Aruz 2003, pp. 165-168
Michalowski, Piotr “Sumerian King List.” in Chavalas 2006, 81-85.
----, “Third Millennium Contacts: Observations on the Relationships between Mari and Ebla" Journal of the American Oriental Society 105 (1985), pp. 293-302
Milano, Lucio. “Ebla: A Third Millennium City-State in Ancient Syria.” In Sasson et al. 1995, volume 2, pp. 1219-1230

Lecture 7 Early Dynastic Workers and Worshipers
Bottero, The Oldest Cuisine in the World
Crawford, Sumer and the Sumerians
Damerow, Peter. “Sumerian Beer: The Origins of Brewing Technology in Ancient Mesopotamia.” Cuneiform Digital Library Journal 2012:2, 1-20
Foster, Benjamin. “A New Look at the Sumerian Temple State" Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 24/3 (1981), pp. 225-241
Hansen, Donald P. “A Sculpture of Gudea, Governor of Lagash.” In Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 64/1 (1988), pp. 4-19
Moorey, P. R. S. “Ur of the Chaldees': A Revised and Updated Edition of Sir Leonard Woolleys Excavations at Ur."
Nemet-Nejat, Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia
Pollock, Susan. “Ur.” In Meyers 1997, volume 5, pp. 288-291
Woolley, C. L. “The Royal Graves of Ur.” In Hands on the Past: Pioneer Archaeologists Tell Their Own Story Edited by C. W. Ceram, pp. 258-262

Lecture 8 Lugalzagesi of Umma and Sargon of Akkad
Allen, James P. “Egypt and the Near East in the Third Millennium B.C.” In Aruz 2003, pp. 251-253
Foster, The Age of Agode
Franke, Sabina. “Kings of Akkad: Sargon and Naram-Sin.” In Sasson et al. 1995, pp. 831-842
Heinz, Marlies. “Sargon of Akkad: Rebel and Usurper in Kish.” In Representations of Political Power: Case Studies of Change and Dissolving Order in the Ancient Near East, edited by Marlies Heinz and Marian H. Feldman
Kramer, Samuel N. The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character
Maeda, Tohru, “Royal Inscriptions of Lugalzagesi and Sargon.” Orient 40 (2005), pp. 3-30
Morgan, Christopher. “Late Traditions Concerning Sargon and Naram-Sin.” In Chavalas 2006, pp. 22-44
Powell, Marvin A. “The Sin of Lugalzagesi.” In Wiener Zeitschriftfur die Kunde des Morgenlandes , volume 86, Festschrift fur Hans Hirsch zum 65. Geburtstag gewidet von seined Freunden , Kollegen, und Schulern ,
pp. 307-314
Westenholz, Joan Goodnick. “Heroes of Akkad "Journal of the American Oriental Society 103/1 (1983), pp. 327-336

Lecture 9 Akkadian Empire Arts and Gods
Aruz, ed., Art of the First Cities
Bahrani, Zainab, “Art of the Akkadian Dynasty.” in Art of Mesopotamia
Black and Green, Gods, Demons, and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia
Bottero, Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia
ColIon, First Impressions
Potts, D. T. “Distant Shores: Ancient Near Eastern Trade with South Asia and Northeast Africa.” in Sasson 1995 et al., Vol. 3, pp. 145-1463
---, “The Gulf: Dilmun and Magan.” In Aruz 2003, pp. 307-308
Schneider, An Introduction to Ancient Mesopotamian Religion
Stieglitz, Robert R. “Long-Distance Seafaring in the Ancient Near East.” Biblical Archaeologist 47/3 (1984), pp. 134-142

Lecture 10 The Fall of Akkad and Gudea of Lagash
Bahrani, "Gudea" in Art of Mesopotamia
Hansen, Donald P. “A Sculpture of Gudea, Governor of Lagash.” In Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 64/1 (1988), pp. 4-19
Jacobson, The Harps that Once
Klein, Jacob. “From Gudea to Sulgi: Continuity and Change in Sumerian Literary Tradition.” In DUMU-E2-DUB-BA-A: Studies in Honor of Ake W. Sjoberg, edited by Hermann Behrens et al.
McMahon, Augusta, “The Akkadian Period: Empire, Environment, and Imagination.” In A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, volume 1, edited by D. T. Potts, pp. 649-667
Rubio, Gonzalo. “From Sumer to Babylonia: Topics in the History of Southern Mesopotamia.” In Current Issues in the History of the Ancient Near East. Edited by Gonzalo Rubio et al., pp. 1-52
Weiss, Harvey et al. “The Genesis and Collapse of Third Millennium North Mesopotamian Civilization.” Science , New Series 261 (1993), pp. 995-1004
Yoffee, Norman. “The Evolution of Fragility: The Resistible Rise and Irresistible Fall of Early States.” In State Formation and State Decline in the Near and Middle East , edited by Rainer Kessler et al., pp. 5-13

Lecture 11 Ur III Households, Accounts, and Ziggurats
Averbeck, Studevent-Hickman, and Michalowski, “Late Third Millennium BCE Sumerian Texts.” Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts (BDTNS), http://bdts.filol.csic.es/
Englund, Robert. “Hard Work—Where Will It Get You? Labor Management in Ur III Mesopotamia.” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 50/4 (1991), pp. 255-280
Garfinkle, “Was the Ur III state bureaucratic? Patrimonialism and bureaucracy in the Ur III period" in The growth of an Early State in Mesopotamia: studies in Ur III administration : proceedings of the First and Second Ur III Worshops at the 49th and 51st Rencontre assyriologique internationale, London July 10, 2003 and Chicago July 19, 2005, pp. 55-62
Lafont, “Women at Work and Women in Economy and Society during the Neo-Sumerian Period.” In Lion and Michel 2016, pp. 149-173
Michalowski, The Correspondence of the Kings of Ur
---, “The Ur III Literary Footprint and the Historian.” In Not Only History: Proceedings of the Conference in Honor ofMario Liverani , edited by Gilda Bartoloni and Maria Giovannna Biga, pp. 105-126
Nemet-Nejat, Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia
Nissen, Damerow, and Englund, Archaic Bookkeeping
Oppenheim, A. Leo. “The Seafaring Merchants of Ur.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 74/1 (1954), pp. 6-17
Parpola, Simo, Asko Parpola, and Robert H. Brunswig, Jr. “The Meluhha Village: Evidence of Acculturation of Harappan Traders in Late Third Millennium Mesopotamia?” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 20/2 (1977), pp. 129-165
Potts, D. T. “Distant Shores: Ancient Near Eastern Trade with South Asia and Northeast Africa.” in Sasson 1995 et al., Vol. 3, pp. 145-1463
Snell, Life in the Ancient Near East
Van De Mieroop, “Democracy and the Rule of Law, the Assembly, and the First Law Code.” In The Sumerian World , edited by Harriet Crawford, pp. 27-7289

Lecture 12 Migrants and Old Assyrian Merchants
Giinbatti, Cahit. “Two Treaty Texts Found at Kultepe.” In Assyria and Beyond: Studies presented to Mogens Trolle Larsen, ed. Jan Gerrit Dercksen
Larsen, The Old Assyrian City-State and Its Colonies
---, “The Old Assyrian Merchant Colonies.” In Aruz 2008, pp. 70-73
Michel, Cecile. “Women of Assur and Kanis.” In Anatolia's Prologue , Kultepe Kanesh Karum, Assyrians in Istanbul , edited by F. Kulakoglu and S. Kangal, pp. 124-133
---, “Women Work, Men are Professionals in the Old Assyrian Archives.” In Lion and Michel 2016, pp. 193-208
Stratford, A Year of Vengeance
Veenhof, Aspects of Old Assyrian Trade and its Terminology
---, “Kanesh: An Anatolian Colony in Anatolia.” In Sasson et al. 1995, volume, pp. 859-871

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Full List of Readings (Post 2 of 2)

Lecture 13 Royalty and Palace Intrigue at Mari
Fleming, Democracy’s Ancient Ancestors
Heimpel, Letters to the King of Mari
Lafont, “The Women of the Palace at Mari.” In Everyday Life in Ancient Mesopotamia edited by Jean Bottero and translated by Antonia Nevill, pp. 127-140
Margueron, Jean-CI. “Mari” in Aruz 2008, 27-33
Sasson,Jack M. From the Mari Archives
---, “Thoughts of Zimri-Lim” in Biblical Archaeologist 47/2 (1984), pp. 110-120
---, “Texts, Trade, and Travelers.” In Aruz 2008, pp. 95-100
Villard, Pierre. “Shamshi-Adad and Sons: The Rise and Fall of an Upper Mesopotamian Empire.” In Sasson et al. 1995, volume 2, pp. 873-884

Lecture 14 War and Society in Hammurabi's Time
Charpin, Hammurabi of Babylon
Horsnell, The Year-Names of the First Dynasty of Babylon
Soltysiak, A. “Antemortem Cranial Trauma in Ancient Mesopotamia.” International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 27 (2015), pp. 119-128
Van De Mieroop, King Hammurabi of Babylon
Van Koppen, Frans. “Old Babylonian Period Inscriptions.” In Chavalas 2006, 88-106

Lecture 15 Justice in the Old Babylonian Period
Barmash, Pamela. “Blood Feud and State Control: Differing Legal Institutions for the Remedy of Homicide During the Second and First Millennia B.C.E." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 63/3 (2004), pp. 183-199
Charpin, Writing, Law, and Kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia
Harris, Rivkah. Ancient Sippar: A Demographic Study of an Old-Babylonian City (1894-1595 BC)
Jacobsen, Thorkild. “An Ancient Mesopotamian Trial for Homicide.” Studia Biblica et Orientalia 3 (1959), pp. 130-150
Nakata, Ichiro. “Economic Activities of naditum- Women of Samas Reflected in the Field Sale Contracts (MHET II/1-6).” In Lion and Michel 2016, pp. 255-269
Roth, Martha T. Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor
---, “Mesopotamian Legal Traditions and the Laws of Hammurabi.” In Chicago-Kent Law Review 71 (1995), pp. 13-39
b>Westbrook, A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law, volume 1

Lecture 16 The Hana Kingdom and Clues to a Dark Age
Bryce, The Kingdom of the Hittites
Buccellati, Giorgio and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati. “Terqa: The First Eight Seasons ? Annales Arch eologiques Arab es Syriennes 33/2 (1983), pp. 47-67
Cancik-Kirschbaum, Eva and Nicole Brisch. Constituent, Confederate, and Conquered Space: The Emergence of the Mittani State
Eidem. Jesper. “International Law in the Second Millennium: Middle Bronze Age.” In Westbrook 2003, volume 1, pp. 748-752
Hunger, Hermann and Regine Pruzsinszky, eds. Mesopotamian Dark Age Revisited. Vienna: Verlag der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2004
Lafont, Bertrand “International Relations in the Ancient Near East: The Birth of a Complete Diplomatic System.” Diplomacy and Statecraft 12:1 (2001), pp. 39-60
Paulus, Susanne. “Foreigners under Foreign Rulers: The Case of Kassite Babylonia (2nd Half of the 2nd Millennium B.C.E.).”
In The Foreigner and the Law: Perspectives from the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East, edited by Reinhard Achenbach et al., pp. 1-16
Podany, Amanda H. “The Conservatism of Hana Scribal Tradition.” In Cultures and Societies in the Middle Euphrates and Habur Areas in the Second Millennium BC-I, edited by D. Shibata and S. Yamada, pp. 69-98
---, The Land of Hana
Richardson, Seth. “The Many Falls of Babylon and the Shape of Forgetting.” In Envisioning the Past Through Memories: How Memory Shaped Ancient Near Eastern Societies , edited by Davide Nadali, pp. 101-142

Lecture 17 Princess Tadu-Hepa, Diplomacy, and Marriage
Bryce, Letters of the Great Kings of the Ancient Near East
Cohen and Westbrook, eds., Amarna Diplomacy
Greene, The Role of the Messenger and Message in the Ancient Near East
Holmes, Y. Lynn. “The Messengers of the Amarna Letters.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 95 (1975), pp. 376-381
Kozloff et al., Egypt’s Dazzling Sun
Liverani, International Relations in the Ancient Near East
Moran, The Amarna Letters
Podany, Brotherhood of Kings
Rainey, The EL-Amarna Correspondence
Sayce, A. H. “The Discovery of the Tel El-Amarna Tablets.” American Journal of Semitic Languages 33 (1917), pp. 89-90
Wilhelm, Gernot. “The Kingdom of Mitanni in Second Millennium Upper Mesopotamia.” In Sasson et al. 1995, volume 2, pp. 1243-1254

Lecture 18 Land Grants and Royal Favor in Mittani
Feldman, Diplomacy by Design
Liverani, Mario “The Late Bronze Age: Materials and Mechanisms of Trade and Cultural Exchange.” In Aruz 2008, pp. 161-168
Maidman, Maynard Paul. “Nuzi: Portrait of an Ancient Mesopotamian Provincial Town.” In Sasson et al. 1995, volume 2, pp. 931-947
Morrison, Martha A. “The Family of Silwa-Tesub mar sarri" Journal of Cuneiform Studies 31 (1979): 3-29
Owen and Wilhelm, Nuzi at Seventy-Five
Paulus, Susanne. “Foreigners under Foreign Rulers: The Case of Kassite Babylonia (2nd Half of the 2nd Millennium B.C.E.).”
In The Foreigner and the Law: Perspectives from the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East, edited by Reinhard Achenbach et al., pp. 1-16
Podany , The Land of Hana
Sassmannshausen, L. “The Adaptation of the Kassites to the Babylonian Civilization.” In Languages and Cultures in Contact: At the Crossroads of Civilizations in the Syro-Mesopotamian Realm , RAI 42 . Edited by K. van Lerberghe and G. Voet, pp. 409-424
Sommerfeld, Walter. “The Kassites of Ancient Mesopotamia: Origins, Politics, and Culture.” In Sasson et al. 1995, volume 2, pp. 917-930
Stein, Diana L. “A Reappraisal of the ‘Saustatar Letter’ from Nuzi.” Zeitschriftfur Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete 79/1 (1989), pp. 36-60
---, “Nuzi.” In Meyers 1997, volume 4, p. 173
Wilhelm, Gernot. “The Kingdom of Mitanni in Second Millennium Upper Mesopotamia.” In Sasson et al. 1995, volume 2, pp. 1243-1254

Lecture 19 The Late Bronze Age and the End of Peace
Astour, Michael. “Ugarit and the Great Powers.” In Ugarit in Retrospect: 50 Years of Ugarit and Ugaritic , edited by Gordon D. Young, pp. 3-29
Bass, George F. “A Bronze Age Shipwreck at Ulu Burun (Kas): 1984 Campaign.” American Journal of Archaeology 90/3 (1986), pp. 269-296
Beckman, Hittite Diplomatic Texts
Beckman, “Hittite Treaties and the Development of the Cuneiform Treaty Tradition.” In Der deuteronomistischen Geschichtswerke , edited by Markus Witte et al., pp. 279-301
Bryce, Life and Society in the Hittite World
Cline, 1177 B.C.
Koehl, Robert B. “Aegean Interactions with the Near East and Egypt during the Late Bronze Age.” In Aruz 2008, pp. 270-272
Podany , Brotherhood of Kings
Pulak, “The Uluburun Shipwreck and Late Bronze Age Trade.” In Beyond Babylon: Art, trade, and diplomacy in the second millennium BC (2008), pp. 289-375
Van De Mieroop, The Eastern Mediterranean in the Age of Ramesses II
Yon, The City of Ugarit at Tell Ras Shamra

Lecture 20 Assyria Ascending
Artzi, Pinhas. “The Rise of the Middle-Assyrian Kingdom, according to El-Amarna Letters 15 and 16.” In Bar-Ilan Studies in History , edited by Pinhas Artzi, pp. 25-41
Bahrani, “Kassite and Assyrian Art at the End of the Bronze Age.’
Barnett, Assyrian Palace Reliefs in the British Museum
Curtis et al., eds., Art and Empire
Garfinkle, Steven J. “The Assyrians: A New Look at an Ancient Power.” In Current Issues in the History of the Ancient Near East, edited by Gonzalo Rubio et al., pp. 53-96
Lamprichs, Ronald. “Assur.” In Meyers 1997, volume 1, pp. 225-228
Oded, Mass Deportations and Deportees in the Neo-Assyrian Empire
Radner , Ancient Assyria, A Very Short Introduction
“Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period,” http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/
Scurlock, JoAnn. “Neo-Assyrian Battle Tactics.” In Crossing Boundaries and Linking Horizons: Studies in Honor of Michael C. Astour on His 80 th Birthday. Edited by Gordon D. Young, Mark W. Chavalas and Richard E. Averbeck, pp. 491-517

Lecture 21 Ashurbanipal’s Library and Gilgamesh
Frahm, Eckart. “Royal Hermeneutics: Observations on the Commentaries from Ashurbanipal’s Libraries at Nineveh.” Iraq 66 (2004), pp. 45-50
Frame, Grant and Andrew R. George. “The Royal Libraries of Nineveh: New Evidence for King Ashurbanipals Tablet Collecting.” Iraq , 67 (2005), pp. 265-284
George, The Epic of Gilgamesh
Grayson, Assyrian Rulers of the Third and Second Millennia BC
Larsen, The Conquest of Assyria
Layard, Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon
Livingstone, A. “Ashurbanipal: Literate or Not?” Zeitschriftfur Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete 97 (2007): pp. 98-118
Pedersen, Archives and Libraries in the Ancient Near East
Pongratz-Leisten, Religion and Ideology in Assyria
Robson, Eleanor. “Reading the Libraries of Assyria and Babylonia.” In Ancient Libraries, edited by Jason Konig et al., pp. 38-56
Rochberg, The Heavenly Writing
Smith, Assyrian Discoveries
Zamazalova, Silvie. “The Education of Neo-Assyrian Princes.” In Radner and Robson 2011, pp. 313-334

Lecture 22 Neo-Assyrian Empire, Warfare, and Collapse
Brinkman et a I., eds., The Cambridge Ancient History, volume 3, part 2.
Collins, Assyrian Palace Sculptures
Dailey, Stephanie. “Ancient Mesopotamian Gardens and the Identification of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon Resolved.” Garden History 21/1 (1993), pp. 1-13
Fuchs, Andreas. “Assyria at War: Strategy and Conduct.” In Radner and Robson 2011, pp. 380-401
Melville, Sarah.“The Last Campaign The Assyrian Way of War and the Collapse of the Empire.” In Warfare and Culture in World History , edited by Wayne E. Lee, pp. 13-33
---, The Campaigns of Sargon II
Stronach, David and Stephen Lumsden. “UC Berkeley’s Excavations at Nineveh.” Biblical Archaeologist 55/4 (December 1992), pp. 227-233
Ur, Jason. “Sennacherib’s Northern Assyrian Canals: New Insights from Satellite Imagery and Aerial Photography.” Iraq 67/1 (2005), pp. 317-345
Van De Mieroop, “Revenge, Assyrian Style.” Past and Present 179 (2003), pp. 3-23
Waters, “Elam, Assyria, and Babylonia in the Early First Millennium BC.” In Oxford Handbook of Ancient Iran, edited by D. T. Potts, pp. 478-492

Lecture 23 Babylon and the New Years Festival
Bahrani, “Babylonian Art.”
Frame, Babylonia 689-627 B.C.
MacGinnis, John. “Herodotus’s Description of Babylon” Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 64 (2002), pp. 217-236
Oates, Babylon
Oshima, Takayoshi. “The Babylonian God Marduk.” In Leick 2009, pp. 348-360
Pearce, Laurie E. “New Evidence for Judeans in Babylonia.” In Judah and the Judeans in the Persian Period , edited by Oded Lipschitz and Manfred Oeming, pp. 399-411
Schneider, An Introduction to Ancient Mesopotamian Religion
Van De Mieroop, “Reading Babylon" American Journal of Archaeology 107/2 (2003), pp. 257-275

Lecture 24 End of the Neo-Babylonian Empire
Beaulieu, Paul-Alain. “Nabonidus the Mad King: A Reconsideration of His Steles from Harran and Babylon.” In Representations of Political Power: Case Studies of Change and Dissolving Order in the Ancient Near East, edited by Marlies Heinz and Marian H. Feldman, pp. 137-168
---, The Reign of Nabonidus
Bryce, Babylonia
Finkel, ed., The Cyrus Cylinder (please add to list)
Kuhrt, Amelie. “Cyrus the Great of Persia: Images and Realities.” In Representations of Political Power: Case Studies of Change and Dissolving Order in the Ancient Near East, edited by Marlies Heinz and Marian H. Feldman, pp. 169-191
Waters, Ancient Persia (please add to list)
Zawadzki, Stefan. “Nabonidus and Sippar.” In Krieg und Frieden im Alien Vorderasien , edited by Manfried Dietrich and Hans Neumann, pp. 875-884