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Banquet of Ashurnasirpal

The Banquet of Ashurnasirpal II is a famous relief sculpture that depicts a lavish feast held by the Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II in 879 BC to celebrate the completion of his new palace at Kalhu (modern-day Nimrud). The relief is carved into a large slab of alabaster and measures over 10 feet tall by 7 feet wide. The relief depicts Ashurnasirpal ...

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Ancient Near East (Babylonia) Glossary and Texts

The Ancient Near East (Babylonia) Glossary and Texts is a comprehensive and authoritative resource for the study of ancient Babylonian culture and language. It is edited by renowned scholars Hermann Hunger and Johannes Renger, and it includes contributions from a number of leading experts in the field. The glossary contains over 2,500 entries, defi...

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Warfare in the Ancient Near East

Warfare in the Ancient Near East to 1600 BC Holy Warriors at the Dawn of History Author: William J. Hamblin...* recruitment and training of the infantry * the logistics and weaponry of warfare * the shift from stone to metal weapons * the role played by magic * narratives of combat and artistic representations of battle * the origins and developme...

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Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions

1997-98 Annual Report...

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A Political Collapse in the Old Babylonian Period

Political Change and Cultural Continuity in Eshnunna from the Ur III to the Old Babylonian Period A dissertation proposal presented to The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations...

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Ancient Economies II

Ancient Economies II deals with more speculative matters such as the economic content in ancient mythology. Morris Silver Economics Department City College of New York...

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Mesopotamian Bronze Age

[Sargon of Akkad] [Naram-Sin] [Sack of Akkad] [Neo Sumerian Renaiessance] [Gudea of Lagash] [Third Dynasty of Ur] [Urnammu] [Shulgi] [End of the URIII Period] [Old Babylonian Period] [Amorites] [Isin-Larsa Period] [Hammurabi of Babylon] [Old Assyrian Period] [Kültepe texts] [The Commercial Process] [Merchandise]...

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Mesopotamia: Root Entry

Mesopotamia stands at the very dawn of human recorded history; we are often fooled into thinking of Mesopotamia as some distant relative, but it is, in fact, a culture stunningly different from our own. We are going to tour the mysteries of this foundational civilization: it's life, it's words, it's gods, and it's writing; you're invited to browse ...

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Mesopotamian Protohistory

[Writing] [The Sumerians] [The Sumerian King Lists] [Early Cities] [The Flood Story] [Jemdet Nasr Period] [Old Sumerian Age] [The Golden Age] [The Heroic Age] [Early Dynastic-III]...

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Ancient Economies II

Ancient economies played a significant role in shaping the societies of the past. These economies were vastly different from the complex systems we have today but were foundational in establishing trade, commerce, and wealth accumulation in ancient civilizations. In ancient Mesopotamia, for example, the economy was largely based on agriculture. Th...

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