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- 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
- In the Hebrew Bible, the Book of Jonah is the fifth in a series of books known as the Minor Prophets of the Hebrew Bible. Unlike other prophetic ...16 KB (2,678 words) - 00:19, 19 November 2023
- ports, Crimea, Armenia, and Georgia on the north; Assyria, Cyprus, and Lebanon to the south; and Persia to the east. By that period the city took also ...15 KB (2,370 words) - 06:36, 28 July 2023
- The Tree of Life is a universal symbol found in many religious traditions. In the Hebrew Bible it is directly mentioned in the Book of Genesis ...17 KB (2,857 words) - 16:43, 2 May 2023
- B.C.E. showing the core territory of Assyria with its two major cities ... When Assyria grew into an empire, it was divided into smaller parts ...54 KB (7,940 words) - 19:20, 25 March 2024
- Poppy is the common name for any of the plants comprising the Papaver genus in the flowering plant family Papaveraceae, characterized by large ...16 KB (2,490 words) - 11:58, 13 February 2022
- of Judah following the destruction of Israel by Assyria in the 720s B.C.E. "P" is often associated with the centralizing religious reforms instituted ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 16:34, 29 January 2024
- weakness after a recent defeat by the Assyrians. Assyria, the major threat to Israel's power, had withdrawn itself temporarily due to internal strife ...15 KB (2,479 words) - 17:17, 26 July 2023
- Jeroboam ("increase of the people"), the son of Nebat, (1 Kings 11:26-39), was the first king of the break-away ten tribes or Kingdom ...17 KB (2,812 words) - 18:48, 23 June 2023
- Not all human-headed animals of antiquity are sphinxes. In ancient Assyria, for example, bas-reliefs of bulls with the crowned bearded heads ...16 KB (2,587 words) - 15:21, 27 April 2023
- This system, which was built by Sennacherib of Assyria in 701 B.C.E., is not only evident in the archaeological remains, but is described in the Assyrian ...44 KB (6,877 words) - 22:27, 15 May 2023
- *Maspero, Gaston. 2003. Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt and Assyria. London: Kegan Paul International. ISBN 0710308833 ==Notes== ==References== ...17 KB (2,548 words) - 04:40, 18 April 2024
- The nation of Ammon or the Ammonites were a people living east of the Jordan river whose origin in the Old Testament traces to Lot, the nephew ...18 KB (2,883 words) - 07:34, 25 July 2023
- it may be that when the myth traveled inland to Assyria, and the hero became Assur instead of Bel-Marduk (and before him, perhaps, of Ea or Enlil), ...16 KB (2,560 words) - 23:20, 30 April 2023
- the northern kingdom itself was destroyed by Assyria in 822 B.C.E. It was later obliterated by King Josiah of Judah during the religious reforms ...19 KB (3,041 words) - 13:10, 19 December 2022
- Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria], Volume 4 (of 12) Retrieved ... Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 4 (of 12),] Project ...39 KB (6,109 words) - 06:55, 16 June 2023
- Edom (אֱדוֹם, ʾĔḏôm, "red") was a nation in the southern Levant from the eleventh century B.C.E until Roman times. The region ...18 KB (2,821 words) - 21:09, 8 August 2023
- argues that "the omission of references to Assyria and Babylonia, classical enemies of the Jews, can hardly be explained as prudence growing out ...19 KB (3,075 words) - 00:18, 19 November 2023
- The cult of Ea extended throughout Babylonia and Assyria. We find temples and shrines erected in his honor at Nippur, Girsu, Ur, Babylon, Sippar and Nineveh ...18 KB (3,043 words) - 08:34, 5 February 2022
- ::Consider Assyria, once a cedar in Lebanon, ::with beautiful branches overshadowing the forest… ::I made it beautiful with abundant branches, ...19 KB (3,242 words) - 04:30, 18 April 2024
- Ezekiel (592 to 570 B.C.E.) (Hebrew: יְחֶזְקֵאל—"God will strengthen") was a major prophet in the Hebrew Bible during the ...21 KB (3,408 words) - 01:46, 23 June 2022
- A Gentile is a non-Jew, the term being a common English translation of the Hebrew words goy (גוי) and nochri (נכרי). The word "Gentile ...20 KB (3,103 words) - 06:50, 18 April 2024
- The Magi organized Persian society after the fall of Assyria and Babylon. However, their power was curtailed by Persian Emperor Cyrus the Great ...20 KB (3,254 words) - 04:59, 5 November 2022
- operation. On the great estates in Assyria and its subject provinces ... expected—that of Babylon, Larsa, Assyria, Carchemish, and so on. ...42 KB (7,282 words) - 22:21, 7 January 2024
- "Yona" is a Pali word used in ancient India to designate Greek speakers. Its equivalent in Sanskrit is the word "Yavana" ...21 KB (3,106 words) - 16:58, 4 June 2023
- site of Kuyunjik (then ancient Nineveh, capital of Assyria) in northern Mesopotamia. The site would be found in modern day Iraq. It is an archaeological ...22 KB (3,301 words) - 00:41, 12 April 2023
- votive offerings from Armenia, Babylon, Iran, Assyria, Egypt, testimony to the reputation that this sanctuary of Hera enjoyed. Burkert 1998. ...19 KB (3,127 words) - 09:47, 22 January 2024
- some 400,000 to 700,000 parchment scrolls from Assyria, Greece, Persia, Egypt, India, and many other nations. The city of Alexandria was founded ...23 KB (3,595 words) - 06:39, 20 July 2023
- incest with her father, Theias, the king of Assyria, which Myrrha did in the dark of night. When Theias realized it was his own daughter with which ...23 KB (3,678 words) - 06:01, 11 August 2023
- a city constructed by King Sargon II of Assyria in the eighth century B.C.E. This site brought to light the Assyrians and lost civilizations ...22 KB (3,221 words) - 04:13, 4 November 2022
- Russia, Little Tartary, the Crimea, Armenia, Assyria, Syria, the Holy Land, and Greece. London: Turner, 1856. 122750941 * Schafer, Edward H. ...23 KB (3,632 words) - 01:57, 15 January 2023
- offer that the Indo-Aryans reached Assyria in the west and the Punjab in the east before 1500 B.C.E. The Indo-Aryan Mitanni rulers appear from ...26 KB (3,877 words) - 22:31, 5 February 2023
