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- keen to discover the long lost cities of Assyria. The only accounts of their ... Botta's passion was to find the lost cities of Assyria, famous ...8 KB (1,273 words) - 16:48, 21 November 2022
- (1846-51) and Outline of the History of Assyria (1852), both reprinted from ... on the Cuneiform Inscriptions of Babylonia and Assyria. 1850. ...10 KB (1,581 words) - 23:12, 8 February 2022
- Ashurbanipal (Akkadian: Aššur-bāni-apli; 685 B.C.E. – 627 B.C.E.), was the last great king of ancient Assyria. During his rule, Assyrian ...17 KB (2,527 words) - 22:19, 8 November 2021
- was captured by king Shalmaneser of Assyria, and taken into exile. According ... idolatry (ch 4). An attempt to ally Assyria will prove futile, as both ...12 KB (1,912 words) - 00:10, 19 November 2023
- prosperous reign. Tiglath-Pileser III of Assyria, meanwhile, increased considerably ... the coming of an invader (probably Assyria) against Jerusalem, in the ...12 KB (1,872 words) - 00:26, 19 November 2023
- dating of Nahum is the possibility that Assyria may represent less a historical ... to the god of the super-power, the god of Assyria, stood in the centre of ...15 KB (2,280 words) - 20:35, 17 May 2023
- Sargon II, whom he succeeded on the throne of Assyria (705 B.C.E. – 681 B.C.E.). In 701 B.C.E., an Egyptian-backed rebellion broke out in Judah ...9 KB (1,470 words) - 09:47, 26 January 2023
- to make explorations among the ruins of Assyria. Layard subsequently ... *Larsen, Mogens T. 1996. The Conquest of Assyria. Routledge. ISBN ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 17:54, 22 August 2023
- help—turned back the rampaging armies of Assyria that had ravaged the nation ... of God's wrath was the rising power of the Assyria. ...20 KB (3,364 words) - 02:59, 8 March 2024
- trade and religious center and was Assyria's capital city from ... It later became the capital of the [[Assyria|Neo-Assyrian Empire]].]] ...21 KB (3,258 words) - 09:49, 11 March 2023
- northern Kingdom of Israel by Sargon of Assyria. Judah absorbed many refugees ... but his decision to rebel against Assyria, whose vassal Judah had ...20 KB (3,298 words) - 11:58, 22 January 2024
- to him since the time of Esarhaddon king of Assyria, who brought us here." But Zerubbabel, Jeshua and the rest of the heads of the families ...14 KB (2,215 words) - 05:52, 13 June 2023
- primarily of prophecies against Babylon, Assyria, Philistia, Moab, Syria ... #039;s wrath would be the rising power of the Assyria. Indeed, in 722 ...20 KB (3,308 words) - 00:11, 19 November 2023
- was spared, but it became a vassal state of Assyria. joined in a military coalition against Assyria. Before the might of the ...27 KB (4,065 words) - 16:48, 25 February 2024
- the later civilizations of Babylonia and Assyria, where he had a major temple ... in all the large cities of Babylonia and Assyria. Sîn's chief sanctuary ...12 KB (1,952 words) - 08:45, 9 October 2022
- to the advancing armies of Sennacharib of Assyria. independence to Tiglath-Pileser III of Assyria by 732 B.C.E., and revolts ...22 KB (3,372 words) - 03:59, 24 November 2022
- B.C.E.). The latter name was later used by two Assyria|Assyrian kings: Ishme-Dagan I (c. 1782–1742 BCE) and Ishme-Dagan II (c. 1610–1594 BCE). ...11 KB (1,786 words) - 07:45, 12 January 2024
- to the Euphrates River to help the king of Assyria. King Josiah marched out ... him since the time of Esarhaddon king of Assyria." Zerubbabel rebuffed ...18 KB (2,889 words) - 21:52, 10 December 2023
- on Egyptian relations with Babylonia, Assyria, the Mitanni, the Hittites ... and moving northwest and eastward toward Assyria and Mittani, then southward ...34 KB (6,076 words) - 02:40, 24 July 2023
- when it was attacked by Assur-dan III, King of Assyria (773). This enabled Jeroboam to extend the boundaries of his kingdom, in accordance with claims ...13 KB (2,065 words) - 08:00, 3 April 2024
- goats were raised. It is very similar to Assyria in climate, and was settled ... the area of the political entity known to Assyria as Hanilgalbat. There is ...37 KB (5,773 words) - 19:19, 9 November 2022
- Jerusalem are about to be overwhelmed by Assyria. Rather than a work of sacred ... revelation as to the propitious time for Assyria to attack. On the fourth ...14 KB (2,138 words) - 00:21, 19 November 2023
- In Mesopotamian religion Shamash was the Akkadian name of the sun god, corresponding to Sumerian Utu. In mythology, Shamash was the son of the ...13 KB (2,138 words) - 12:22, 27 January 2023
- humble himself before Shalmaneser III of Assyria, an act notoriously memorialized ... of Damascus. After the death of Hazael, Assyria moved against Damascus again ...15 KB (2,424 words) - 04:42, 31 July 2022
- priests of Asshur made themselves kings of Assyria. Most divine attributes ... htm The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Theophilus G. Pinches ...19 KB (2,994 words) - 05:24, 26 August 2023
- In most Semitic languages, the word Abba (also rendered Ab or Aba) means "father" (or more affectionately "Papa" or "Daddy ...7 KB (1,044 words) - 07:15, 13 June 2023
- ), Larsa, Babylon, Assyria, ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, and ancient Rome. References to cymbals also appear throughout the Bible, through ...15 KB (2,396 words) - 20:32, 28 December 2023
- A relief is a sculptured art work in which figures are either carved into a level plane or, more typically, the plane is removed to create images ...15 KB (2,307 words) - 03:37, 8 December 2022
- 22, concerns the destruction of the Kenites by Assyria. ships approaching from the west, to attack Assyria and Eber. ...16 KB (2,754 words) - 04:16, 11 January 2023
- first from the northern kingdom of Israel to Assyria and then from the southern kingdom of Judah to Babylon. Although some later returned to Judea ...16 KB (2,452 words) - 11:56, 29 January 2024
- Judeans, Edomites, and Moabites against Assyria after expulsion of king ... came unto Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and fought against ...25 KB (3,733 words) - 04:02, 18 August 2023
- terms Amurru and Amar were used for them in Assyria and Egypt respectively. Amorites worshiped, among others, the moon-god Sin, and Amurru, from ...16 KB (2,552 words) - 17:17, 26 July 2023
- of the northern tribes of Israel to Assyria in 721 B.C.E. under Sargon II. (The first two and a half chapters are written in the first person ...8 KB (1,317 words) - 15:33, 30 January 2024
- citizens of the northern Kingdom of Israel to Assyria around 722 B.C.E. The exile in Babylon—which directly affected mainly those of the upper class ...18 KB (2,780 words) - 05:25, 26 August 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Linguistics Category:Anthropology Category:Archaeology {{Infobox WS |name=Cuneiform ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 06:45, 12 January 2024
- 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
