Beschreibung
The masterful first comprehensive non-fiction account of the rise and fall of what historians consider to be the world's very first empire: Assyria. At its height in 660 BCE, the kingdom of Assyria stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. Here, historian Eckart Frahm tells the epic story of Assyria and its formative role in global history. From a professor of Assyriology at Yale and one of the world's foremost experts on the Assyrian Empire.
