The Ancient East
by D. G. Hogarth
Publisher: H. Holt 1915
ISBN/ASIN: B0006BYVUS
Number of pages: 280
Description:
The area, whose social state we shall survey in 1000 B.C. and re-survey at intervals, contains Western Asia bounded eastwards by an imaginary line drawn from the head of the Persian Gulf to the Caspian Sea. This area is marked off by seas on three sides and by desert on the fourth side.
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