Tyre (Phoenician רצ, ṣūr, "rock"; Greek Τύρος; Latin Tyrus): port in Phoenicia and one of the main cities in the eastern Mediterranean.
Esarhaddon (Nahr al-Kalb)
The Assyrian…
Assyrian King List: list of rulers of ancient Assyria, used as a framework for the study of Mesopotamian chronology.Incomplete lists of Assyrian kings have been discovered in each of Assyria's three capitals: Aššur, Dur-Šarukkin, and Nineveh. There are also two…
Sixth Dynasty: name of the last kings of Egypt's "Old Kingdom". During their reign, Egypt became more fragmented and the Sixth Dynasty marks the beginning of the First Intermediary Period.Summary
The reign of king Pepy I is a period of prosperity
Pepy II was…
Seventh and Eighth Dynasties: name of the kings in Memphis during Egypt's First Intermediary Period.General situation
Egypt was, after the demise of the Old Kingdom, divided until it was reunited by the Eleventh Dynasty, which had started as the local dynasty in Thebes.
MEMPHIS
HERACLEOPOLIS
THEBES
Eleventh…
Ninth and Tenth Dynasties: name of the kings in Heracleopolis during Egypt's First Intermediary Period.General situation
Egypt was, after the demise of the Old Kingdom, divided until it was reunited by the Eleventh Dynasty, which had started as the local dynasty in Thebes.
MEMPHIS
HERACLEOPOLIS
THEBES
Eleventh…
On the last day of the month Aiiâru in the fourteenth year of his reign, Alexander died in Babylon. The only contemporary source describing the event is the Astronomical Diary, a day-by-day account of celestial phenomena, written by the officials…
The texts known as the "Sibylline oracles" were collected between the second century BCE and seventh century CE. They derive their name from Sibyl, a word indicating a prophetess; there were some ten or twelve of these ladies and there…
The Chronicle on the Reigns from Nabû-Nasir to Šamaš-šuma-ukin (ABC 1) is one of the historiographical texts from ancient Assyria and Babylonia. It deals with the resistance of an increasingly stronger Babylon, supported by Elam, against Assyria, beginning with the…
The Chronicle on the Reigns from Nabû-Nasir to Šamaš-šuma-ukin (ABC 1) is one of the historiographical texts from ancient Assyria and Babylonia. It deals with the resistance of an increasingly stronger Babylon, supported by Elam, against Assyria, beginning with the…
The Chronicle on the Reigns from Nabû-Nasir to Šamaš-šuma-ukin (ABC 1) is one of the historiographical texts from ancient Assyria and Babylonia. It deals with the resistance of an increasingly stronger Babylon, supported by Elam, against Assyria, beginning with the…