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- The Arabian Peninsula (Arabic: شبه الجزيرة العربية šabah al-jazīra al- ʻ arabīyya or جزيرة العرب jazīrat al- ...10 KB (1,505 words) - 21:35, 29 December 2023
- Sāmarrā (Arabic,سامراء) is a town in Iraq that in ancient times may have been the world's largest city. With its majestic mosques ...9 KB (1,343 words) - 02:08, 23 December 2022
- priests in the area: "Then the king of Assyria gave this order: 'Have one of the priests you took captive from Samaria go back to live there ...12 KB (1,793 words) - 22:25, 26 September 2023
- In Sumerian mythology and later in the religions of Assyria and Babylonia, Anu (also An—from Sumerian An = sky, heaven) was a sky-god and the ...10 KB (1,744 words) - 21:24, 24 March 2024
- between Turks and Greeks,"] Assyria Times (2006). Retrieved June 20, 2008. Gaziantep, a city in Turkey, is famous for its baklava and, in ...10 KB (1,501 words) - 05:50, 26 August 2023
- Moab and Ammon, the Ethiopians, and Assyria (2:8-15), and probably also ... that their god could act against Assyria, Edom, and other nations ...21 KB (3,366 words) - 19:07, 20 November 2023
- The Hanging Gardens of Babylon (also known as the Hanging Gardens of Semiramis) are considered one of the ancient Seven Wonders of the World ...11 KB (1,741 words) - 20:50, 21 January 2024
- Cyrus (Old Persian Kourosh or Khorvash, modern Persian: کوروش, Kourosh) (ca. 576 – July 529 B.C.E.), also known as Cyrus the Great and ...22 KB (3,584 words) - 07:28, 12 January 2024
- An arachnid is any member of the arthropod class Arachnida, a largely terrestrial group that includes spiders, mites, ticks, scorpions, and harvestmen ...11 KB (1,536 words) - 02:13, 9 January 2023
- Furniture is the term used for a class of movable objects that may support the human body (as for seating or sleeping), provide storage, or hold ...10 KB (1,622 words) - 07:22, 15 April 2024
- category:image wanted Sargon I, also known as Sargon of Akkad or Sargon the Great (Akkadian: Šarukinu, "the true king") (reigned 2334 ...10 KB (1,482 words) - 02:26, 21 April 2023
- History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 4 (of 12), Project Gutenberg EBook, Release Date: December 16, 2005. EBook #17324. ...23 KB (3,474 words) - 17:25, 18 April 2023
- During Menahem's reign, the king of Assyria, Tiglath-pileser (referred ... Judah. Supporting Judah, now a vassal of Assyria, Tiglath-pileser invades ...60 KB (9,862 words) - 21:32, 6 February 2024
- Atra-Hasis, also spelled Atrahasis, is an eighteenth century B.C.E. Akkadian epic, named after its human hero. It contains both a creation myth ...11 KB (1,791 words) - 19:31, 30 November 2021
- northern kingdom of Israel, which was defeated by Assyria in 722 B.C.E. [[Image:Tel arad all.JPG|thumb|270px|Tel Arad, located in the area where ...12 KB (1,877 words) - 17:23, 5 October 2022
- Canaan), and it was also at this time that Assyria paid a second "tribute ... Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 5 (of 12), Project ...45 KB (7,145 words) - 14:03, 14 January 2024
- A cherub (Hebrew: כרוב, plural כרובים kruvim) is a supernatural entity mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible, and in the Christian ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 18:30, 8 December 2023
- their garrisons when civil war broke out in Assyria (651-648). The sphinx of Taharqa was found at Kawa Sudan, and is now on display in the British Museum. ...24 KB (3,779 words) - 10:09, 11 March 2023
- In the seventh century, King Ashurbanipal of Assyria assembled what is considered "the first systematically collected library" at Nineveh; ...14 KB (1,842 words) - 22:32, 25 October 2022
- of the later empires of Babylonia and Assyria. For several centuries, the river formed the eastern limit of effective Egyptian and Roman control ...12 KB (1,782 words) - 04:26, 23 March 2024
