Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 January 2020
The rise of city of Assur constitutes one of the remarkable stories in the history of the Ancient Near East. The city is located in one of the most marginal locations of the Near East, in what would appear to be a most inauspicious place for the development of any city, let alone one that would give rise to a polity that would come to dominate much of the Near East and which lasted for about seven centuries. This chapter aims to discuss how and why the polity of Assur could rise to prominence.
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