
Volume 01
Origins and Antiquity
The Ancient Background to Kurdish History
Prehistory to the seventh century CE
Explore the ancient highlands, their communities and empires, and the evidence behind the question of Kurdish origins.
93 pages12 chapters16 visuals
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- 01Finding the ancient past
- 02Early communities in the highlands
- 03The Gutians and Mesopotamian memory
- 04Hurrian worlds and the kingdom of Mitanni
- 05The Medes and the end of Assyrian power
- 06Cyrus and the Median inheritance
- 07The highlands in the Achaemenid world
- 08Xenophon and the Carduchoi
- 09Alexander and the Hellenistic kingdoms
- 10Parthian frontiers
- 11The Sasanian age
- 12The question of Kurdish origins
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