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The First Cities

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Author(s): Ruth Whitehouse
Publisher: Phaidon Press Limited
Year: 1977

Language: English

Chapter I Cities and Civilization 7
Chapter II The Discovery of the First Cities 16
Chapter Ill Mesopotamia: Land, Cities and People 33
Chapter IV Mesopotamia: Temple and Palace 59
Chapter V Mesopotamia: the Fruits of Civilization 82
Chapter VJ The Indus Valley 116
Chapter VII Between Tigris and Indus 147
Chapter VIII Precursors of the First Cities 162
Chapter IX The Origins of Civilization 177
Further reading 199
List of illustrations 200
Index 204