  LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Following page 64 I. THE STUDY OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS II. THE PREHISTORY OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST III. THE CITIES OF MESOPOTAMIA IV. EGYPT, THE KINGDOM OF THE TWO LANDS APPENDIX The Influence of Mesopotamia on Egypt Towards the End of the Fourth Millennium B.C. [169] ANCHOR BOOKS AMERICAN HISTORY AND STUDIES HENRI FRANKFORT Doubleday Anchor Books Henri Frankfort was born in 1897 in Holland. He first studied history at Amsterdam University, obtained his M.A. in London, but returned to the University of Leiden for his Ph.D. He has done extensive field work in the Near East, his main project being the Oriental Institute of Chicago’s excavations in Iraq from 1929 to 1937. Dr. Frankfort both organized and headed these excavations, which yielded much new information on the early history of Babylonia, from 4000 to 2000 B.C. In 1938 Dr. Frankfort went to Chicago to write and to teach at the University of Chicago, which had appointed him Research Professor of Oriental Archaeology in 1932. In 1949 he was appointed Director of the Warburg Institute and Professor of the History of Pre-classical Antiquity in the University of London. Among his other writings are numerous contributions to professional journals and a book, Ancient Egyptian Religion (1948). Dr. Frankfort died in 1954. Cover design by Antonio Frasconi The Birth of Civilization in the Near East was published by Indiana University Press in 1951. The Anchor Books edition is published by arrangement with Indiana University Press. Anchor Books edition: 1956 First published in the United States of America |
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