Publisher's Synopsis
The present volume aims to help to consolidate the studies on Ancient Near Eastern warfare. The book compiles nine works which cover a wide geography (Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia, Levant), chronology (3rd-1st millennia BCE) and range of subjects. (...) The essays in this volume contain important contributions on warfare in the Ancient Near East. The book includes two studies on the Old Kingdom Egypt (Moreno Garcia) and Hittite military (Bryce); a study on Egyptian military activities in the Levant during the Eighteenth dynasty, with a special focus on fortifications (Burke); an analysis of the use of war chariots in the Late Bronze Age (Vita); a study of the military activities of the Sutean tribes attested in the Amarna letters (Vidal); some chronological reflections on a military expedition of Tukulti-Ninurta I (Llop); a full description of Neo-Assyrian battle tactics (Nadali); an analysis of conscription in the Neo-Babylonian army (MacGinnis); and an essay on the emorialization of military campaigns of Nabuchadnezzar II in the Phoenician coast (Da Riva).
