Asiria : Auge y caída del primer imperio del mundo

Nearly three thousand years ago, long before Rome or Persia, Assyria became the first great empire of antiquity. From the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf, its armies and ambassadors carried the power of Nineveh to the farthest reaches of the known world, subjugating kingdoms and building an unprecedented machine of domination. In "Assyria", Eckart Frahm, one of the world's leading Assyriologists, immerses us in the epic of this pivotal civilization, drawing on cuneiform texts, monumental remains, and the latest archaeological discoveries. From the relentless sieges of Ashurnasirpal II that razed rebellious cities to the monumental avenues of Nineveh and the libraries of Ashurbanipal, where the knowledge of the Mesopotamian world was preserved, we discover an empire of contrasts: warrior kings and powerful queens, devastating armies, and an administration capable of governing vast territories. Great conquerors with unprecedented political and cultural ambition, the Assyrians transcended the Mesopotamian world to incorporate Egypt and the Levant, and the biblical and classical echoes of their power resonate to this day. Assyria is the definitive work for understanding the astonishing civilization that, as the Romans themselves acknowledged, laid the foundations for all subsequent empires.