التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Life and Death in NABADA. |
| المؤلفون: |
Bretschneider, Joachim |
| المصدر: |
Scientific American Special Edition; Feb2005 Special Edition, Vol. 15 Issue 1, p52-59, 8p, 17 Color Photographs, 10 Black and White Photographs, 1 Map |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
ARCHAEOLOGY, PREHISTORIC peoples, TURKISH antiquities, BRONZE Age |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
BEYDAR, Tell (Syria), TURKEY, SYRIA, IRAQ |
| مستخلص: |
This article focuses on the prehistoric city of Nabada, in present-day Turkey. A research team began to excavate Tell Beydar, a large mound--or "tell"--rising out of the flat steppes near the Khabur River. In these steppes, a tell indicates a long-buried city; after 10 years of intensive research, we can now say that Beydar did not disappoint. Inside the 28-meter-high circular hill archaeologists found a complex almost as old and large as the citadel of ancient Troy. The city, known in ancient times as Nabada, evidently enjoyed its greatest prosperity during the early Bronze Age, between 2800 and 2200 B.C.E. Our aim was to understand the birth of city-states--the metropolises that ruled the surrounding countryside and, sometimes, other cities-in northern Mesopotamia. In 1993 and 1994 excavators made a surprising discovery: a collection of clay tablets with a meticulous record of the palace's daily accounts. Since then, we have found 216 tablets inscribed with a cuneiform script familiar from southern Mesopotamia. |
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