The Peoples of the Hills: Ancient Ararat and Caucasus (History of Civilization series) by Burney, Charles & Lang, David Marshall - 2001

London: Phoenix Press, 2001 "This is the first coherent account of the archaology and ancient history of the civilizations and peoples of eastern Turkey, Armenia, Georgia and the Caucasus. Archaeologist Charles Burney describes the environment and geographical featrures of the region and discusses the oldest prehistoric sites; the earliest Anatolian settlements ,the remarkable cultures of the third and second millenia BC and the impact of outside influences. The history of Urartu is traced in detail from its origins... [to] the coming of the Armenians. Historian David Marshall [follows] with a history of the region after the Persian Empire into the Greek and Roman periods ... Tigranes the Great and Mithradates Eupator and the struggle against Rome. Special sections .arae devoted to the ancient Christian civilizations of Armenia and Georgia and their contributions to art, architecture, literature ad learning, ending with the onslaught of the Mongols in the 13th. century. 324p. illus.index maps.. 1st Pbk Edition. Softcover. New.