Mountains and Lowlands: Ancient Iran and Mesopotamia

Ancient Mesopotamia and Iran are usually treated separately or as part of a much broader 'Ancient Near East'. However, the developments that lie at the root of our own world - farming, cities, writing, organized religion, warfare - were forged in the tensions and relations between the inhabitants of lowland Mesopotamia (ancient Iraq) and the highlands of Iran.





Mountains and Lowlands explores this relationship providing a detailed but accessible account covering the period 6000 BC AD 650...