Formation and Development of Ancient Citites in Orient

1997年至1998年，我们在国家文科部科研资助(B)项目的基础上共同开展了“古代东方城市的建立与发展”的研究项目。在这三年里。我们开了9次学习会议，每次会议都从我们的成员中邀请讲师，他们是每个地区的专家，例如埃及考古学，安纳托利亚考古学等。因此，我们处理了9个地区的古城（东地中海地区，巴勒斯坦，安纳托利亚，美索不达米亚，波斯湾地区，伊朗，印度河流域，中国）。本课题的目的在于把握两点：一是研究各地区古城的现状，二是找出古城的共性和地域性。1998年是这个项目的最后一年，我们发表了“Kodgi Orient ni okern tosi keisei to sono tenkai（古代东方城市的建立和发展）”的报告。在本报告中有12篇文章发表，每位作者都论述了以上两点。

From 1997 to '98, we have had a joint research project' Foundation and development of Cities in ancient Orient', which bases on Grant-Pa-Aid for Scientific Research (B) from the Ministry of Education Science, Sports and Culture.In this three years. we had 9 study meetings, each meeting invited lecturer, out of our members, who are specialists of each region, for instance, Egypitan archaeology, Anatolian archaeology etc. As a result, we treated 9 regions of ancient cities (Eastern Mediterranean area, Palestine, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Persian Gulf area, Iran, Indus, China).The aim of our project are to grasp two points : first, the existing state of ancient cities study of each region, second we find out the common character and regional character on ancient cities.'98 is the final year of this projects, we publish the report "Kodgi Orient ni okern tosi keisei to sono tenkai( Foundation and development of Cities in the Ancient Orient) in Japanese ). 12 essays print carry in this report, each writer discuses the above two points.