The Crescent and the Bull: A Survey of Archaeology in the Near East

Abraham Abydos Akkadian American ancient antiquity appeared Arabs archaeologists Arzawa Asia Minor Assyrian Babylon Babylonian Bedouin began Berlin Bible Biblical Boghaz Keui brick British building bulls buried Canaan Carchemish cave century B.C. Champollion clay coffin corpse cuneiform dating dead death discovered discovery Dynasty east Egypt Egyptian Egyptologists erected Euphrates excavations expedition feet French funerary chamber German Gizeh gold golden Greek Haran head hieroglyphs Hittite horns Ikhnaton inscribed inscriptions investigators Israel Israelites Jericho Jerusalem king Koldewey labour land lapis lazuli later lions Lord Marib Mesopotamia modern moon Moses mound mummy Museum mysterious Nile Nineveh once Osiris palace Palestine papyrus Persian Pharaoh philologists priests pyramid queen religious remains royal tombs ruins sacred sanctuary Schliemann scholars scrolls stone stood Sumerian symbols Syria tablets Tell Halaf temple texts Thebes third millennium B.C. thousand took Troy Ugarit unearthed Uruk Valley walls Warka Winckler Woolley