Iraq
There are 608 items in Iraq:
Hatra, Statue of a general |
Hatra, Statue of an eagle |
Hatra, Statue of Shahiro (?), the morning star |
Hatra, Statue of the Moon goddess |
Hatra, Temple of Šamaš |
Hattusa, Epic of Gilgamesh |
Herodotus on Cyrus' capture of Babylon
In October 539 BCE, the Persian king Cyrus took Babylon, the ancient capital of an empire covering modern Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Israel. In a broader sense, Babylon was the ancient world's capital of scholarship and science. The subject provinces…Herodotus, bk 1, logos 3
Herodotus of Halicarnassus (c.480-c.429 BCE): Greek researcher, often called the world's first historian. In The Histories, he describes the expansion of the Achaemenid Empire under its kings Cyrus the Great, Cambyses, and Darius I the Great, culminating in Xerxes' expedition to Greece (480 BCE), which met with disaster…
Hormizd II |
Hormizd IV |
Jehoiachin in Babylonia
One of the last kings of Judah, Jehoiachin (r.598-597) was taken captive by the Babylonians (2 Kings 24.15; ABC 5) and lived in exile in the country of the conquerors. However, he was released, and a couple of cuneiform tablets…
Jerwan Aqueduct |