Lykos or Nahr al-Kalb: river, northeast of modern Beirut, best known for a large series of rock inscriptions, both ancient and modern.
Nahr al-Kalb
The Lykos…
Magians (Old Persian Maguš): experts in Iranian religious - probably: oral - traditions, perhaps belonging to a Median tribe. They are to be distinguished from priests.Magians and magicians
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Margiana (Old Persian Marguš): oasis in the Karakum desert, modern Mary (or Merv) in the southeast of Turkmenistan.Bronze Age
Margiana was situated on the boards of the river Murghab; this river, which was called Margos by the ancient Greeks, has its…
Masjid-e Solaiman ("Solomon's Mosque") or Sar-e Masjid: ancient town in southwestern Iran.
Masjid-e Solaiman, terrace, from the N
A visitor of Masjid-e…
Megabyzus (Old Persian Baghabuxša): Persian nobleman, one of the seven conspirators who killed the Magian usurper Gaumâta and helped Darius I the Great become king (September 522 BCE).
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Megabyzus (Old Persian Baghabuxša) (c.516-c.440): Persian nobleman, most important Persian commander during the first half of the fifth century BCE.
Achaemenid…
Megiddo: important excavation in Galilee.Bronze Age
Thuthmose III
Situated at an important pass though the Carmel Mountains, Megiddo controlled the "Way of…
Memphis (Egyptian: Inbu-Hedj, "white walls", and Men-nefer, "lasting and beautiful"; Greek: Μέμφις): capital of ancient Egypt.
Memphis, Statue of Ramesses II…
Mesopotamia: pseudo-ancient name for the country that is now known as Iraq. In Antiquity, it was not common to regard the five parts of this region as a unity.
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The Assyrian and Babylonian chronicles are historiographical texts from ancient Mesopotamia. Although they contain references to the earliest times, they deal especially with the second half of the second and the entire first millennium down to the first century BCE…
The Assyrian and Babylonian chronicles are historiographical texts from ancient Mesopotamia. Although they contain references to the earliest times, they deal especially with the second half of the second and the entire first millennium down to the first century BCE (cf. this table).General
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Grayson, A.K. 1975, Assyrian…