Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World - John Baines
1. Ancient Near East and Hittite Traditions: Introduction
Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World - John Baines
Paul Collins [+]
University of Oxford
Paul Collins is Jaleh Hearn Curator for Ancient Near East at the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. His research interests include the meaning of visual representation in Mesopotamia, and the role of museum displays in shaping disciplinary knowledge. He is the author of Assyrian Palace Sculptures (British Museum, 2008), and Mountains and Lowlands: Ancient Iran and Mesopotamia (Ashmolean Museum, 2016).