Ancient Near East

Map of Asia Minor/Near East circa 150 BC

Nicely done, in color. [Ancient Near East] [Coins]...

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Babylonian calendar

The ancient Babylonians used a calendar with alternating 29- and 30-day months. This system required the addition of an extra month three times every eight years, and as a further adjustment the king would periodically order the insertion of an additional extra month into the calendar....

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Other calendars used in the ancient Near East

Of the calendars of other peoples of the ancient Near East, very little is known. Thus, though the names of all or of some months are known, their order is not. The months were probably everywhere lunar, but evidence for intercalation is often lacking; the Assyrians, the Hittites and Iran....

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Kassites

[Mesopotamia] [People]...

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The Late Aegean Bronze Age: cities & palaces 1250-1000 BCE

map. (University of Oregon) [Mesopotamia] [Places]...

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Mesopotamia - Maps and History

The word 'Mesopotamia' is in origin a Greek name (mesos `middle' and 'potamos' - 'river' so `land between the rivers'). 'Mesopotamia' translated from Old Persian Miyanrudan means "the fertile cresent". Aramaic name being Beth-Nahrain "House of Two Rivers") is a region of Southwest Asia. [Mesopotamia] [Places]...

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Detailed Map of Ancient Mesopotamia

Black and white printable map....

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King David

from Timeline of Jewish History [Mesopotamia] [People]...

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Nebuchadnezzar II

(r. 605""562 bc), greatest king of the neo-Babylonian, or Chaldean, dynasty, who conquered much of southwestern Asia; known also for his extensive building in the major cities of Babylonia. [Mesopotamia] [People]...

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