Cities and planning in the ancient Near East.pdf

Braziller | 1968 | Pdf | Eng | 128 pages | 25.8 MB

"Cain went out from the presence of the Lord and dwelt in the land of Nod on the East of Eden . . . and he built a city..." (Genesis 4:16-17)

The lands lying in a huge semicircle called the Fertile Crescent, around the Syrian and Arabian Deserts, were the home of some of the earliest known peoples and their cities. The Bible and other chronicles of the time portray the tragic role of the city as a pawn in the continuous cycle of life and death, of construction and destruction