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- 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
- Enlil (EN = Lord+ LIL = Air, "Lord of the Wind") John A. Halloran, December 10th, 2006, [http://www.sumerian.org/sumerlex.htm "Sumerian ...12 KB (1,974 words) - 18:55, 13 February 2024
- Ishtar, a goddess of both fertility and war, is the Akkadian name of the Sumerian goddess Inanna and the Semitic goddess Astarte, the three names ...12 KB (2,015 words) - 03:03, 8 March 2024
- the twelve tribes of Israel and Shalmaneser of Assyria. ==Translation efforts== Italian explorer Pietro della Valle visited the inscription in ...13 KB (1,988 words) - 10:27, 26 September 2023
- However, even after the conquest of the Northern Kingdom by Assyria in the eighth century B.C.E., the shrine of Bethel retained its importance ...13 KB (2,035 words) - 10:23, 4 March 2023
- Category:Anthropologists Budge, Wallis Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (July 27, 1857 – November 23, 1934) was an English Egyptologist ...13 KB (1,982 words) - 22:08, 3 May 2023
- Byblos (Βύβλος)is the Greek name of the Phoenician city Gebal (earlier Gubla). The ancient city on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea served ...14 KB (1,996 words) - 19:08, 24 November 2023
- a rate of 40 times the iron's weight, with Assyria. there until after Egypt's conquest by Assyria in 663 B.C.E. ...29 KB (4,547 words) - 04:40, 28 April 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:Isaiah.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Isaiah the Prophet in Hebrew Scriptures was depicted on the Sistine Chapel ceiling by Michelangelo ...39 KB (6,126 words) - 09:20, 28 June 2022
- their vessels with the wares of Egypt and Assyria. Herodotus, The Histories ... With the rise of Assyria, the Phoenician cities one by one lost their ...30 KB (4,504 words) - 04:20, 24 November 2022
- A yarmulke (Hebrew: יאַרמלקע meaning "cap") is a thin, slightly-rounded skullcap traditionally worn by Orthodox Jewish men ...15 KB (2,303 words) - 10:14, 22 May 2023
- been mentioned in ancient medicinal texts from Assyria, Sumer, and Egypt as a remedy for aches and fever (Breasted 2007; Nobel 2008) and the Ancient ...16 KB (2,517 words) - 21:53, 25 November 2022
- bring them back from Egypt and gather them from Assyria. I will bring them to Gilead and Lebanon, and there will not be room enough for them." (10:10) ...16 KB (2,596 words) - 13:06, 13 February 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication Category:Sociology [[Image:RoyalMailCollectionBox20040124CopyrightKaihsuTai.jpg|thumb ...32 KB (4,926 words) - 05:47, 30 November 2022
