Description
This take a look at is the primary detailed synthesis of the epigraphic and archaeological evidence for ancient Damascus on this generation. Pitard surveys the geographical setting of the world, its development because the land of Apum within the Middle Bronze Age, growth within the Overdue Bronze Age, and the emergence of the powerful city-state within the Iron Age, including its family members with the Israelite kingdoms, and in the end its fall on the hand of the Assyrians.