Babylonia

There are 354 items in Babylonia:

Mazaeus

Mazaeus (c.385-328): Persian nobleman, played an important role during the conquest of the Achaemenid empire by the Macedonian king Alexander the Great. …

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Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia: pseudo-ancient name for the country that is now known as Iraq. In Antiquity, it was not common to regard the five parts of this region as a unity. …

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Mesopotamian Chronicles

The Assyrian and Babylonian chronicles are historiographical texts from ancient Mesopotamia. Although they contain references to the earliest times, they deal especially with the second half of the second and the entire first millennium down to the first century BCE…

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Mesopotamian Chronicles - Literature

The Assyrian and Babylonian chronicles are historiographical texts from ancient Mesopotamia. Although they contain references to the earliest times, they deal especially with the second half of the second and the entire first millennium down to the first century BCE (cf. this table).General ABC Grayson, A.K. 1975, Assyrian…

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Mesopotamian Chronicles (2)

The Assyrian and Babylonian chronicles are historiographical texts from ancient Mesopotamia. Although they contain references to the earliest times, they deal especially with the second half of the second and the entire first millennium down to the first century BCE.In…

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Mesopotamian Chronicles (content)

The Assyrian and Babylonian chronicles are historiographical texts from ancient Mesopotamia. Although they contain references to the earliest times, they deal especially with the second half of the second and the entire first millennium down to the first century BCE. There is more here.

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Mesopotamian Chronicles: Dictionary

The Assyrian and Babylonian chronicles are historiographical texts from ancient Mesopotamia. Although they contain references to the earliest times, they deal especially with the second half of the second millennium and the entire first millennium down to the first century BCE (cf. this table).Akkad Archaic name of…

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Morlanwelz, Musée de Mariemont

About a year ago, I visited the exposition on the Celts in the Musée de Mariemont in Morlanweltz, which is east of Charleroi in Belgium. The exposition dealt with the ethnogenesis of the Celts in Bohemia, and also deals with…

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Nabonidus

Nabonidus (Babylonian: Nabû-na'id): last king of Babylonia, ruled 556-539.Relatives Nabonidus Father: Nabû-balâssi-iqbi Mother: Adad-Guppi Son: Belshazzar Main deeds 556: Becomes king after a coup d'état by…

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