AU - Burney, Charles Allen. TI - From village to empire: an introduction to Near Eastern archaeology SN - 0714817309 AV - DS56 B87 1977 PY - 1977/// CY - Oxford PB - Phaidon KW - Bronze age KW - Middle East KW - Sumer KW - Civilization KW - Antiquities KW - Mesopotamia N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-212) and index; 1. Neolithic Revolution in the Near East -- 2. The Rise of the First Cities : Sumerian Civilization in Mesopotamia -- 3. New Rulers and Peoples in Mesopotamia : Agade, Ur, Babylon, Assyria -- 4. The Levant from c.5000 BC until the end of the Bronze Age -- 5. Anatolia until the end of the Bronze Age (c. 1200 BC) and Contemporary Cultures in Iran and Trans-Caucasia -- 6. The Near East in the Period of the Assyrian Empire and its Neighbours -- 7. The Near East in a New Era : from the Last Years of Assyria ER -