Boycott Yes or No

Name: Bassma Taher Mohamed Hassan
ID: 900094006
Course: EGPT 199
Instructor: E. Salgues
Assignment 2

I. (A)
Black, Jeremy A., Anthony Green, and Tessa Richards. Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia. Austin, Texas: University of Texas, 1992. Print.
“It’s useful for knowing information about Ancient Mesopotamian gods and their relationship with other gods and people. Also, it was illustrating the main features that the gods were known for. “

Bottero, Jean, ed. Everyday Life in Ancient Mesopotamia. Trans. Antonia Nevill. United Kingdom: Edinburgh UP, 2001. Print.
“This book is talking about the life of the ancient Mesopotamians more differently because it’s talking more about the private life. Like their Social relationships, food, religion, and entertainment.”

Chavalas, Mark W. The Ancient Near East: Historical Sources in Translation. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2006. Print.
“Texts, documents and inscriptions from ancient cities, all these sources helped us in understanding how ancient people were living and what was their culture. This book is translating all these important documents starting from the Sumerian Early dynastic period to the Achaemenid period.”

Roaf, Michael. Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East. New York, NY: Facts on File, 1996. Print.
“This Atlas is useful for knowing quick and important information about the history of Mesopotamia’s empires, cities and its archeological significance.”

Leick, Gwendolyn. Who's Who: In The Ancient Near East. London: Routledge, 1999..
“This book is talking about people who made significant work in the Ancient near east. It’s like am alphapitical dictionary for those people names.”

Meywers, Eric M., ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia Archaeology in the Near East. Vol. 1. NY: Oxford UP, 1997. Print.
“It contains the archeological information about the cities of the ancient near east. and information about the important things they discovered in each site.”... [continues]

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