Ancient Near East

Annals of Assur-Nasir-Pal - (71k)

Assyrian and Babylonian texts...

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The Prehistoric Mound Of Tall-i-Bakun

PERSEPOLIS AND ANCIENT IRAN, Multiple images (with high resolution photos) Oriental Institute, University of Chicago http://www-oi.uchicago.edu...

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Learning Sites Inc. - Til Barsib Syria

The Aramaean city of Tel Barsib, and a provincial capital of the Assyrian empire for some 250 years beginning about 850 BC, from the Department of Classics and Archaeology at the University of Melbourne. [Archaeological Sites] [Iraq]...

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Inscription of Nebuchadnezzar - (30k)

Assyrian and Babylonian texts...

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ISTAKHR, THE ISLAMIC CITY MOUND

PERSEPOLIS AND ANCIENT IRAN, Multiple images (with high resolution photos) Oriental Institute, University of Chicago http://www-oi.uchicago.edu...

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Umm al-Hafriyet

Part of the Nippur program, a nearby site, occupied in the Uruk (ca. 3500 b.c.), Ur III to Old Babylonian (2200-1800 b.c.), Kassite (ca. 1250 b.c.), and Seleucid (ca. 300 b.c.) periods. Excavations from the Oriental Institute. [Archaeological Sites] [Iraq]...

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Sir Austen Henry Layard - Discoveries at Nineveh

Discoveries At Nineveh by Austen Henry Layard, Esq., D.C.L. Text source: A Popular Account of Discoveries at Nineveh. Austen Henry Layard. J. C. Derby. New York. 1854. [Archaeology]...

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Hammurabi Stela

A wealthy empire eventually rose to challenge the supremacy of Assyria. This empire was known as Babylonia. Hammurabi, an early ruler of Babylonia, created an important written law code. This stela depicts Hammurabi receiving the law code from Shamash, the sun-god. [BABYLONIA] [Near East] [Art] [Archaeology] [Architecture]...

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Images of the Median and Achæmenid Empire

, Iran Architecture, stone carving and art of the AchÃ"menid Empire.[AchÃ"mids and Medes]...

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Relief of soldiers from Persopolis

with wicker shields. 6th c. B.C. (East Berlin: Pergamum Museum). [AchÃ"mids and Medes] [images] [AchÃ"menid stone carving]...

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