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Front of the throne base of Shalmaneser III of Assyria, showing the Assyrian king and Marduk-zakir-šumi I of Babylon shaking hands in a public display of Assyro-Babylonian friendship. From Kalhu. Iraq ...

v. 1. Historical records of Assyria, from the earlist times to Sargon.--v. 2. Historical records of Assyria, from Sargon to the end https://siris-libraries.si.edu ...

It was from Assyria, known as Mesopotamia (between the Tigris and Euphrates) that the first civilization began, and gave rise to an intellectual thought process that helped build scientific as well as ...

This verse from the Bible likely sounds familiar to many; it refers to the conquest of the Mesopotamian city by Cyrus the Great and the Persians in 539 BCE, the year they ended a period of Babylonian ...

Archives of Babylon and Nineveh. From what we know of the magnitude, importance, and glories of Babylonia and Assyria it is safe to assume that a more or less complicated system of accounting was ...

THIS little book belongs to a projected series of volumes which we gather are intended to deal with the Babylonians and Assyrians and other allied Semitic races, “the object of the series” being, ...

The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Archaeologist Bekas ...