Vocabulary for the Near East 1800
... Kassite: were a people of the ancient Near East, who controlled Babylonia after the fall of the Old Babylonian Empire c. 1531 BC and until c. 1155 BC Bronze Age: The Bronze Age in the ancient Near East began with the rise of Sumer in the 4th millennium BC and lasted until around 1200 BC with the adv ...
... Kassite: were a people of the ancient Near East, who controlled Babylonia after the fall of the Old Babylonian Empire c. 1531 BC and until c. 1155 BC Bronze Age: The Bronze Age in the ancient Near East began with the rise of Sumer in the 4th millennium BC and lasted until around 1200 BC with the adv ...
Minoan pottery
Minoan pottery is more than a useful tool for dating the mute Minoan civilization. Its restless sequence of quickly maturing artistic styles reveals something of Minoan patrons' pleasure in novelty while they assist archaeologists in assigning relative dates to the strata of their sites. Pots that contained oils and ointments, exported from 18th century BC Crete, have been found at sites through the Aegean islands and mainland Greece, on Cyprus, along coastal Syria and in Egypt, showing the wide trading contacts of the Minoans. The extremely fine palace pottery called Kamares ware, and the Late Minoan all-over patterned ""Marine style"" are the high points of the Minoan pottery tradition.