Nabopolassar: first king of the LateBabylonian Empire, ruled 626-605.Relatives
ABC 4: The Late Nabopolassar Chronicle
Son: Nebuchadnezzar II
Main deeds
After the death of…
Nebuchadnezzar (Nabû-kuduri-usur): king of Babylonia, ruled 605-562.Relatives:
A very damaged inscription of Nebuchadnezzar on the bank of the Nahr al-Kalb river
Father:…
Neo-Hittites or Syro-Hittites: modern name for the successor states of the Hittite Empire, which had desintegrated in the early twelfth century BCE.Demise of the Hittite Empire
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Neriglissar: king of ancient Babylonia, ruled 559-556.The Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar died in 562 and was succeeded in by his son Amel-Marduk, who was almost immediately murdered and replaced by his brother-in-law Neriglissar, who is probably identical to an officer of Nebuchadnezzar…
Nineveh (Assyrian: Ninua): last capital of the Assyrian Empire, destroyed in 612 BCE, modern Mosul.Early History
Early Ninevite Pottery
Nineveh, the last capital of Assyria,…
Philadelphia: orginal capital of the Ammonites, city in the Ptolemaic Empire, one of the towns in the Decapolis, modern Amman (Jordan).Prehistory and Iron Age
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Phoenicians (Greek: Φοίνικες): Greek name of the inhabitants of the ancient cities of Aradus, Tripoli, Byblos, Berytus, Sidon, and Tyre. In the Iron Age, they founded colonies on Cyprus (Kition), on Sicily (Motya, Panormus), in Libya (Lepcis, Oea, Sabratha), in…
Phoenix: mythological bird from Egypt. The Egyptian mythology and its Greek interpretations must be distinguished.
Purple heron
In Egyptian mythology, the bird…