Ceramic Development in the Middle East

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Jericho
3. Catal Huyuk
4. Mesopotamia
5. Hassuna
6. Samarra
7. Halaf
8. Ubaids and Sumerians in South Mesopotamia
9. Eridu
10. Ubaid Pottery
11. Uruk
12. Ur
13. Early Dynasties of Ur
14. The Phoenicians
15. The Sea People
16. Phoenicians “after the Sea People”
17. Egypt to the First Intermediate Period
18. Egyptian Clays
19. Nubian Pottery
20. The Nile
21. Tasian Culture (around 5,500 to 4,700 BC)
22. Badarian Culture (4,700 to 4,000 BC)
23. Naqada Period (4,000 to 3,100 BC)
24. Faience
25. Writing
26. The Early Dynasties
27. The Old Kingdom
28. Pottery in the Old Kingdom
29. The Empires
30. Akkadians (2,334 to 2,154 BC)
31. Third Dynasty of Ur (2,112 to 2,004 BC)
32. The Hurrians and Mitanni
33. Egypt after the First Intermediate Period
34. New Kingdom Pottery
35. “Old” Babylonia (2,040 to 1,595 BC) and “Middle” Babylonia (Kassite) (1,595 to 1,153BC)
36. Early Assyrian Empires
37. Anatolia
38. The Hittite Empire (1,680 to 1,180 BC)
39. Phrygians in Anatolia
40. Lydia (679 to 546 BC)
41. Troy (Ilion)
42. Assyria from 1,112 BC and the “Second” Assyrian Empire (911 to 605 BC)
43. Second or Neo-Babylonian Empire (605 to 539 BC)         
44. Persia up to the “First” Persian Empire
45. First Persian Empire (550 to 331 BC)
46. Second Persian Empire (250 BC to 642 AD)
47. Islamic Empire (from 661 AD)
48. North Africa
49. Umayyad Dynasty (661 to 750 AD)
50. Abbasid Dynasty (750 to 1258 AD)
51. Persia (from 819 AD)
52. Seljuk Empire (1037 to 1194 AD)
53. Mongols (1219 AD)
54. Timurids (1393 AD)
55. Safavid Dynasty (1502 to 1722 AD)
56. Turkey and the Ottomans