War and war-related issues have attracted an increasing attention within current historical and
archaeological research not least in response to recent global political events. Another
reason for this growing interest is probably a general trend towards Modern Military History
that has drawn academic attention to war-related issues through all cultures and epochs going
beyond Clausewitz's argument of war as a continuation of politics by other means. The present
vol-ume is committed to this broad approach by examining and comparing phenomena related to
ancient warfare from the perspective of Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Classical Studies. Due
to unforeseeable circumstances which prevented the organizers from editing their own
proceedings some papers of the 8th Symposium of the Melammu Project held at Kiel on the
subject Iranian Worlds have been added to this volume in their own section.
