title: Armenia, Subartu, and Sumer: The Indo-European homeland and ancient Mesopotamia
author:  Martiros Kavoukjian 
description: Text: English (translation)<br> Original Language: Armenian
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  **The Age of Agade**
  
   _The Age of Agade_ is the first book-length study of the Akkadian period of
  Mesopotamian history, which saw the rise and fall of the world’s first empire
  during more than a century of extraordinary political, social, and cultural
  innovation. It draws together over 40 years of research by one of the world’s
  leading experts in Assyriology to offer an exhaustive survey of the Akkadian
  empire.
  
  Addressing all aspects of the empire, including its statecraft and military,
  territory and cities, arts, religion, economy, and production, _The Age of
  Agade_ considers what can be said of Akkadian political and social history,
  material culture, and daily life. A final chapter also explores how the empire
  has been presented in modern historiography, from the decipherment of
  cuneiform to the present, including the extensive research of Soviet
  historians, summarized here in English for the first time. Drawing on
  contemporaneous written and artifactua