This book is the first in ten years to present a comprehensive survey of art and architecture in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq, northeast Syria and southeast Turkey), from 8000 BCE to the arrival of Islam ...

Archaeologists have recently unearthed a 5,000-year-old cultic space at the site of Kani Shaie in Iraq. This monumental building, deeply connected to ancient Uruk, one of the world’s first cities, ...

FREDERICK N. BOHRER Orientalism and Visual Culture: Imagining Mesopotamia in Nineteenth-Century Europe Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 383 pp.; 79 b/w ills. $95.00 DOUGLAS R. NICKEL ...

Panjim abounds with heritage structures that reflect a variety of influences. To the tourist, the Indo-Portuguese structures bearing the imprint of the European colonial power that ruled the territory ...