Babylonia
There are 354 items in Babylonia:
BCHP 8 (Juniper Garden Chronicle)
The Chronicle concerning a service field (bît ilki) near the Juniper garden ("Juniper Garden Chronicle"; BCHP 8) is one of the Mesopotamian chronicles written in ancient Babylonia in the Hellenistic Period. …BCHP 9 (End of Seleucus I Chronicle)
The Chronicle concerning the last years of Seleucus ("End of Seleucus chronicle"; BCHP 9) is one of the Mesopotamian chronicles written in ancient Babylonia in the Hellenistic Period. It describes the final days of the reign of king Seleucus, who defeated…
Behistun, Darius' relief, Arakha |
Behistun, Darius' relief, Nidintu-Bêl |
Bêl-šimânni and Šamaš-eriba
Bêl-šimânni and Šamaš-eriba: name of two Babylonian rebel kings who rose against his Persian overlord Xerxes in the summer 484 BCE. …
The end of the archives in Babylon, Borsippa, and Sippar |
Bêl-šimânni and Šamaš-eriba: dates of the tablets |
Berlin, Pergamon Museum
The Pergamonmuseum is probably Berlin’s most famous cultural institution. It contains three major collections which, each in itself, might have been fine museums: a classical department, a department of ancient Near Eastern art, and a department of Islamic art. What…Berossus
Berossus (Akkadian Bêl-re'ušunu): Babylonian priest, who wrote a Greek history of Babylonia in the first half of the third century BCE. …Berossus on Nebuchadnezzar
The third book of Berossus' Babylonian history we find accounts of the reigns of several kings. One of these is the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II (605-562). Unfortunately, Berossus' own account is lost, but it was summarized by the Jewish historian…Berossus on the Creation
The first book of Berossus' Babylonian history begins with a description of the creation of the world and humankind, based on the epic Enûma êliš, and includes the story of Oannes, who taught wisdom to man, and a Babylonian bestiary.…Bethlehem
Bethlehem: town in Judaea, birthplace of Jesus of Nazareth.Bethlehem Bethlehem on the Madaba Map Already mentioned in the Amarna Letters (fourteenth century…