Babylonia
There are 354 items in Babylonia:
Uruk, Old-Babylonian geometrical tablet |
Uruk, Relief of a hunter (Jamdat Nasr Period) |
Uruk, Temple area with Eanna |
Willemstad, Kurá Hulanda
Museum dedicated to the past of Curaçao's "black" population. There's a nice department of African art, a department to slavery, and a department that tries to document the rise of civilization, called "lands of Abraham". This last department has some…Ziggurat
Ziggurat: a multi-storied temple tower from ancient Mesopotamia. Choga Zanbil Ziggurats are, architecturally, the Mesopotamian equivalent of the Egyptian pyramids: large artificial…Zopyrus
Zopyrus: a Persian nobleman who may have played a role during the capture of Babylon by the Persian king Darius I the Great in December 522 BCE. The story is told by the Greek researcher Herodotus and can be read…