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- Sarah was originally called Sarai. She was born in the major Mesopotamian ... her husband is consistent with ancient Mesopotamian practice. ...14 KB (2,282 words) - 19:23, 15 September 2022
- the second millennium B.C.E. In later Mesopotamian religion, Enki/Ea became ... * Jacobsen, Thorkild. Treasures of Darkness; A History of Mesopotamian ...18 KB (3,043 words) - 08:34, 5 February 2022
- ===Mesopotamian and Sumerian mythology=== Mesopotamian and Sumerian myths told of numerous gods, such as An ...32 KB (4,963 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- In pre-Jewish Mesopotamian religion, the Tree of Life was depicted ... throughout the world. In ancient Mesopotamian and Canaanite traditions ...17 KB (2,857 words) - 16:43, 2 May 2023
- Based on the first Mesopotamian texts discovered by archaeologists ... [http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/ishtar.html Ancient Texts] ...16 KB (2,459 words) - 04:00, 27 February 2023
- Some of the important historical Mesopotamian leaders were Ur-Nammu ... neo-Assyrian and Christian native Mesopotamian states existed between ...54 KB (7,940 words) - 19:20, 25 March 2024
- included the earliest generation of Mesopotamian deities, such as the Elder ... primeval watery state which opens the Mesopotamian creation text Enuma Elish ...16 KB (2,560 words) - 23:20, 30 April 2023
- | Mesopotamian deities |- align="center" | Adad | Amurru ... inherited many of the traits of her Mesopotamian relative Inanna. ...17 KB (2,817 words) - 19:01, 26 July 2023
- Samarran Culture was the precursor to the Mesopotamian culture of the Ubaid period. The city of Sur-marrati--re-founded by the Assyrian King Sennacherib ...9 KB (1,343 words) - 02:08, 23 December 2022
- 155 miles south of modern Baghdad. In Mesopotamian mythology Gilgamesh is ... in Babylonia - Gilgamesh, Enkidu and Mesopotamian Homosexuality," in ...20 KB (3,247 words) - 12:42, 22 May 2024
- versions of what existed in another major Mesopotamian city. Stephanie Dalley has proposed that the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were actually the ...11 KB (1,741 words) - 20:50, 21 January 2024
- also seemed to hearken back to early Mesopotamian/Akkadian works, with the large, almost "all-seeing" eyes. The Woman paintings II through ...10 KB (1,460 words) - 15:38, 6 May 2023
- [[Image:mesolapis.jpg|thumb|right|250px|A Mesopotamian lapis lazuli pendant, circa 2900 B.C.E.]] The history of lapis lazuli stretches back to ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 22:35, 22 October 2022
- *Lloyd, Seton. 1981. Foundations in the Dust: The Story of Mesopotamian Exploration. London; New York: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0500050384 ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 17:54, 22 August 2023
- The first known system with place-value was the Mesopotamian base ... com/~catshaman/13comp/0numer.htm Mesopotamian and Germanic numbers]. ...37 KB (5,685 words) - 00:43, 17 November 2022
- in the Mari archives and several other ancient Mesopotamian texts. Akkadian texts from c. 2300 B.C.E. testify to its wide influence and later inscriptions ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 17:22, 11 October 2020
- A stone potter's wheel found at the Mesopotamian city of Ur, in modern-day Iraq, has been dated to about 3,000 B.C.E., but fragments of wheel ...12 KB (2,032 words) - 05:56, 30 November 2022
- also the inspiration for much of later Mesopotamian mythology, religion, and ... the Image of Tammuz and Other Essays on Mesopotamian History and Culture. Cambridge ...37 KB (5,525 words) - 22:21, 26 February 2023
- In Mesopotamian and Sumerian artwork and the Bible, the unicorn is depicted as a symbol of strength and virtue. In 200 C.E., Tertullian had called ...12 KB (1,900 words) - 23:41, 8 November 2023
- Images of musical instruments begin to appear in Mesopotamian artifacts ... as evidenced by their proliferation in Mesopotamian figurines, plaques, and ...26 KB (3,752 words) - 21:15, 27 November 2021
