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Kuzi-Teshub in Wikipedia

Kuzi-Teshub was the son of Talmi-Teshub who was both the last viceroy of the Hittite Empire at Carchemish under Suppiluliuma II, and a direct descendant of Suppiluliuma I.[1] He succeeded his father in office according to royal seal impressions found at Lidar Höyük in 1985 on the east bank of the Euphrates river. Kuzi-Teshub then styled himself as ...

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Marduk-Apla-Iddina I in Wikipedia

Marduk-apla-iddina I (Akkadian: "Marduk gave a son")[citation needed] was a Kassite king of Babylon ca. 1171–1159 BC (short chronology). He was the son and successor of Meli-Shipak II, from whom he had previously received lands, as recorded on a Kudurru...

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Mesha in Wikipedia

The books of Samuel record that Moab was conquered by David (floruit c.1000-970 BCE) and retained in the territories of his son Solomon (d. 931 BCE). Later, King Omri of Israel reconquered Moab after Moab was lost subsequent to King Solomon's reign. The Mesha Stele, erected by Mesha, indicates that it was Omri, king of the northern kingdom of Israe...

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Mushezib-Marduk in Wikipedia

Mushezib-Marduk (692 BC - 689 BC), Chaldean prince chosen as King of Babylon after Nergal-ushezib. He led the Babylonian populace in revolt against Assyria and King Sennacherib in 689 BC, with the support of Elam and King Humban-nimena (which was attacked by the Babylonians and the Assyrians only years before), at the Battle of Halule. It's not cl...

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Nabu-Mukin-Zeri (Mukin-Zeri) in Wikipedia

Nabu-mukin-zeri (also known as "Ukinzir", Greek: "Chinzeros") was the King of Babylon 732-729 BC. He was an Aramean chief who seized the throne. The Assyrians tried to bring the people to rebel against him, but they were unsuccessful. He was killed during the Assyrian siege of Babylon. ....

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Marduk-nadin-ahhe in Wikipedia

Marduk-nadin-ahhe was a king of Babylon from 1100-1082 BC in Dynasty IV of Babylon. Marduk-nadin-ahhe is known to have made at least one Kudurru boundary stone....

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Mesopotamia in Wikipedia

Mesopotamia (from the Greek Μεσοποταμία "[land] between the rivers", Assyrian called "Bet-Nahrain", rendered in Arabic as بلاد الرافدين bilād al-rāfidayn)[1] is a toponym for the area of the Tigris-Euphrates river system, largely corresponding to modern-day Iraq,[2] as well as some parts of northeastern Syria,[2] southeastern Turkey,[2] and southwe...

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Mut-Ashkur in Wikipedia

Mut-Ashkur was the king of Assyria from 1730 BC to 1720 BC. The was the son and successor of Ishme-Dagan. His father arranged for him to marry the daughter of the Hurrian king Zaziya. [1]...

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Nabu-Shuma-Ukin Ii in Wikipedia

Nabu-Suma-Ukin II. was the King of Babylon briefly in 732 BC. He ascended the throne after the assassination of Nabu-nadin-zeri, but was deposed after a month of his reign by Nabu-mukin-zeri. [1] Albert Kirk Grayson in his book "Assyrian and Babylonian" reports that this particular king is omitted from the Ptolemaic canon. [2]...

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Lipit-Eshtar in Wikipedia

Lipit-Ishtar (Lipit-Eshtar), was the fifth ruler of the first dynasty of Isin, and ruled from around 1934 BCE to 1924 BCE. Some documents and royal inscriptions from his time have survived, but he is mostly known because Sumerian language hymns written in his honor, as well as a legal code written in his name (preceding the famed Code of Hammurabi ...

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