The Annals of Tiglath-pileser: name of an Assyrian royal inscription, documenting the reign of king Tiglath-pileser III (r.745-722).After an impasse that had lasted for almost a century, the Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser III (r.745-722) an launched aggressive military policy to the…
Esarhaddon's Nahr al-Kalb Inscription: inscription, just north of Beirut in modern Lebanon, documenting the Assyrian conquest of Egypt in 671 BCE.Assyria and Egypt
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Tyre (Phoenician רצ, ṣūr, "rock"; Greek Τύρος; Latin Tyrus): port in Phoenicia and one of the main cities in the eastern Mediterranean.
Esarhaddon
In the first quarter…
Tyre (Phoenician רצ, ṣūr, "rock"; Greek Τύρος; Latin Tyrus): port in Phoenicia and one of the main cities in the eastern Mediterranean.
Esarhaddon
In the first quarter…
Tyre (Phoenician רצ, ṣūr, "rock"; Greek Τύρος; Latin Tyrus): port in Phoenicia and one of the main cities in the eastern Mediterranean.
Aššurbanipal
In the final years…
Siloam Inscription: inscription from Jerusalem, now in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum, documenting the cutting of a water tunnel.
Siloam Inscription
After the…
In October 539 BCE, the Persian king Cyrus took Babylon, the ancient capital of an oriental 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…
Fourth Dynasty: name of the second dynasty of Egypt's "Old Kingdom", the builders of the famous pyramids.Summary
Khufu (Cheops)
King Snefru build three…