Back to Ancient History Sourcebook | Back to Islamic History Sourcebook | Ancient History Sourcebook: Ancient Accounts of Arabia, 430 BCE - 550 CE Herodotus: The Histories, c. 430 BCE Strabo: Geography, c. 22 CE Dio Cassius: History of Rome, c. 220 CE Ammianus Marcellinus: The Roman History, c. 380 CE Procopius of Caesarea: History of the Wars, c. 550 CE Herodotus: The Histories, Book III, c.

Back to Ancient History Sourcebook | Ancient History Sourcebook: A Collection of Contracts from Mesopotamia, c. 2300 - 428 BCE I. Sales and Purchases II. Rentals III. Labor Contracts IV. Co-Partnerships V. Loans and Mortgages VI. Bankruptcy VII. Power of Attorney VIII. Marriage IX. Divorce X. Adoption XI. Inheritance I. Sales and Purchases Contract for the Sale of a Slave, Reign of Rim-Sin, c.

Back to Ancient History Sourcebook | Ancient History Sourcebook: The Code of the Assura, c. 1075 BCE Excerpts from the Code of the Assyrians. I.2. If a woman, whether the wife of a man or the daughter of a man, utter vulgarity or indulge in low talk, that woman bears her own sin; against her husband, her sons, or her daughter they shall have no claim. I.7. If a woman bring her hand against a ...

The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature Catalogues: by date | by number | in full | Website info: navigation help | site description | display conventions | recent changes Project info: consolidated bibliography | about the project | credits and copyright | links The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature Now, I swear by the sun god Utu on this very day -- and my younger ...

Parthia: The Parthian Empire - History and Coins of Ancient Parthia ...

Resoures of Art, Biographies, Daily Life, Maps, Pictures and Research on Mesopotamia.

The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project (State Archives of Assyria) Institute for Asian & African Studies University of Helsinki Finland The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, started in 1986, is a long-term undertaking to collect all published and unpublished Neo-Assyrian texts into an electronic database, Corpus of Neo-Assyrian (CNA), and maintain the database as a research tool; use the CNA ...

Babylonian and Egyptian mathematics We now have a more extensive coverage of Babylonian and Egyptian mathematics. Click on one of the links below Babylonian mathematics index Egyptian mathematics index JOC/EFR January 2001 The URL of this page is: School_of_Mathematics_and_Statistics University_of_St_Andrews, _Scotland http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.

Links to Halloran lexicon of Sumerian, paper analyzing the proto-language, and other Mesopotamian-related sites.

Welcome to the Sumerian Text Archive The Sumerian Text Archive offers a growing collection of transliterated Sumerian texts. These texts have been transliterated using only characters from the ASCII alphabet so that the text files can be used on every type of computer. As a result, however, the transliterations deviate in a number of ways from what is common practice in Sumerology. The list of ...

Halsall Home | Medieval Sourcebook | Modern History Sourcebook Other History Sourcebooks: African | East Asian | Indian | Islamic | Jewish | LGBT | Women's | Global | Science Main Page Full Texts Legal Texts Additions Search Help Studying History Human Origins Mesopotamia Egypt Persia Israel Greece Hellenistic Wld Rome Late Antiquity Christian Origins See Main Page for a guide to all contents of ...

Written ...

On Line Ancient Near Eastern Texts keyed to Britannica Online for Serious links to research on Babylonia ...

Looting of Iraqi archaeological sites has been a major problem since the Gulf War. Includes clickable map of the throne room suite ...

Ancient and modern texts on Mesopotamia: Religion, Mythology, Magic, Gods and Goddesses ...

This page is sponsored by: since 1995, famous, recommended plumbing supplier: to Famous PlumbingSupply.com to International Toilet History in India and the World The History of Plumbing - Babylonia To the ancient traveler on foot or camel back, the massive walled city of Babylon and its network of canals and verdant crop lands must have loomed like a mirage in the simmering heat of the Near East ...

A digital representation of the University of Minnesota's cuneiform inscriptions, dating from the late 3rd and early 2nd millenia BCE. Includes pictures, transliterations, translations, and commentary.

Cyrus the Great; A historical account; his life and aceivements, Learn about Cyrus's Multicultural Attidues. Visit Cyrus's resting place in Pasargadae and his Bass Relief in Sydney Australia ...

An article from the Catholic Encyclopedia ...

DIGITAL LIBRARY Work in Progress Publications About CDLI Project Associates and Staff Related Projects Communications Method & Conventions Tools & Sundries Copyright &copy Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative Last Modified Berlin Mirror ...

Complete corpus of Old Persian texts with English translations.

A short essay on cuneiform, one of the earliest writing systems devised. Developed by the Sumerians in Mesopotamia as a picture writing, cuneiform eventually developed into a more abstract, wedge-shaped syllabary.

Babylonian Mathematics 4 is the length and 5 the diagonal. What is the breadth It's size is not known. 4 times 4 is 16. 5 times 5 is 25. You take 16 from 25 and there remains 9. What times what shall I take in order to get 9 3 times 3 is 9. 3 is the breadth. Sounds like my Trigonometry class, except this teacher was holding class 3900 years ago in Mesopotamia, specifically the city of Harmal ...

BECK index Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian Empires Assyrian Empire Babylonian Empire Zarathushtra Persian Empire to 500 BC Persian-Greek Wars The twelfth to the ninth centuries BC in Mesopotamia are considered a dark age, because very little is known about that time period. From the thirteenth century BC to the middle of the sixth century is called the iron age with increasing use of that new ...

The Assyrians A short Historical summary of the Assyrian people, from the dawn of civilization to the refugee situation of today ASSYRIA GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION: Northern Iraq, north-western Iran, south-easten Turkey and north-eastern Syria. TERRITORY: Assyrian triangle located between Lower Zab and Tigris Rivers. POPULATION: Over three million people live in their homdand Iraq and outside, spread ...

An article from the Catholic Encyclopedia ...

ANCIENT IRAN ~ PERSEPOLIS ~ PERSIA The early history of man in Iran goes back well beyond the Neolithic period, it begins to get more interesting around 6000 BC, when people began to domesticate animals and plant wheat and barley. The number of settled communities increased, particularly in the eastern Zagros mountains, and handmade painted pottery appears. Throughout the prehistoric period, ...

Rise Of The Human Race The Civilizations Of The Ancient Near East Introduction Paleoanthropologists estimate that between three and four million years ago, ancestors of the human race appeared on earth, naked in a world of enemies. The skills necessary for survival were mastered over many hundreds of thousands of years. Agriculture and the ways of life it engendered were the most important ...

The Babylonian Collection, Sterling Memorial Library Return to Exhibition Home Page Scribal School-tablet with proverb, ca. 18th century B.C.E. Kudurru (boundary-stone), 12th century B.C.E., showing the healing goddess, Gula, literally the great one, and symbols of other deities. Babylonian cylinder commemorating Nebuchadnezzar II (604-562 B.C.E.), the king who destroyed the first Temple in ...

Cuneiform numbers Cuneiform numbers were written using a combination of just two signs: a vertical wedge for '1' and a corner wedge for '10'. Handwriting varied as much in Old Babylonian times as it does now but the basic system of numbers is illustrated below. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 30 40 50 60 Some common variants are for 4 for 7 for 8. Occasionally, 19 was written ...

Back to Ancient History Sourcebook | Ancient History Sourcebook: Greek Reports of Babylonia, Chaldea, and Assyria Herodotus: from The History of the Persian Wars, c. 430 BCE Herodotus: From The History of the Persian Wars, c. 430 BCE I.178: Assyria possesses a vast number of great cities, whereof the most renowned and strongest at this time was Babylon, where, after the fall of Nineveh, the seat ...

An article from the Catholic Encyclopedia ...

Examines Mesopotamian flood traditions, Woolley's discovery of Flood Mud beneath ancient Ur, the Nippur Tablet, Gilgamesh Epic, and Bible's Genesis story of Noah and the Great Deluge.

The Persian Empire. Cyrus. Darius. Bible Study. Discover the amazing truth of the Gospel. Eternal life. Christian living. Bible people, places, things. End time prophecy. Many worldwide study links.