The Greatness that was Babylon: A Sketch of the Ancient Civilization of the Tigris-Euphrates ValleyExcavations in Mesopotamia have revealed a large amount of new information relevant to the study of Babylonian civilization. The roots of much of western civilization lie in Babylonia the ancient civilization of south Iraq. Alexander the Great recognized the importance of its heritage and planned to make Babylon his world capital. The splendours and supposed wickedness of Babylon lived on in a tradition transmitted through the Bible and classical writers. The author aims here to reconstruct all aspects of this lost culture, presenting the Babylonians as living people -- showing their eating and drinking habits, their worship, their relationships and lifestyle and so present an integrated picture. |
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Mesopotamia before 2000 B C | 3 |
Babylonia and Assyria circa 20001350 B C | 60 |
The Rise of Imperial Assyria | 83 |
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administration Agade Akkadian amongst ancient Mesopotamia Aramaean Ashur Ashurbanipal Asia Minor Assyrian Assyrian army Assyrian bas-relief Babylon Babylonia Babylonian period Cassite century B.C. certainly Chaldaean city-state clay cult culture cuneiform death deity divine documents Early Dynastic east Egypt Egyptian Elam empire Enki Enlil Epic Erech Eridu Esarhaddon Euphrates evidence father Gilgamish goddess gods governor Halaf Hammurabi hand Hittite Hurrian Inanna incantation inscriptions Iraq Ishtar Jemdet Nasr king kingship known Lagash land Larsa later laws lord magical Marduk Mari mentioned Mesopotamia military millennium B.C. myth Nabopolassar Nabu-na'id Naram-Sin Nineveh Nippur official Old Babylonian omens originally plate priest probably referred reign religion religious represented ritual royal ruler Sargon second millennium Semitic Shalmaneser Shamash Shamshi-Adad silver slave Sumer Sumerian Sumerian King List Syria tablets temple texts Third Dynasty third millennium Tiglath-Pileser Tigris Tilmun tomb trade Ubaid Urartu Uruk Utnapishtim whilst Yasmah-Adad ziggurat