Mesopotamia is the broad, flat alluvial plain between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in what is today Syria and Iraq (Fig. 1). Under the rule of Sargon of Akkad, the world’s first united empire was established in this region, linking the remote agricultural hinterlands of northern Mesopotamia with the complex city-states in the south. This united empire extended from the Persian Gulf to the he...

Mezopotamya coğrafyasında kurulan Asur Devlet’i Eski - Orta ve Yeni olmak üzere üç döneme ayrılırken, Devleti’nde dört kralı kapsayan ( II. Sargon Sanherib Asarhaddon Asurbanipal) Sargonidler Devri ya da İmparatorluk denilmektedir. Dönemi’nden başlayarak devam eden Asur-Babil mücadelesi makalemize konu olan dönemde de etmiştir. Babil’in önemi coğrafyasına göre daha uygun şartlara sahip olması b...

To study the influence of binocular summation on the threshold values of the central visual field in normal subjects, the authors modified the Octopus 201 by combining it with the space synoptophore. They tested ten normal subjects between 20 and 30 years of age. A space synoptophore was built into the cupola of the Octopus 201 so that the authors could confirm the conditions of binocular visio...

This special issue of JEMAHS with a focus on imperial architecture and identity is an elaboration workshop that took place at the University Helsinki's Centre Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires brought together scholars from different disciplines—architecture, archaeology, history, social science, heritage studies—to discuss new interdisciplinary approaches to identities past societies ...