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.
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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 ...
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Back to Ancient History Sourcebook | Ancient History Sourcebook: Code of Hammurabi, c. 1780 BCE Commentary by Charles F. Horne, (1915) Commentary by Claude Hermann Walter Johns, The Encyclopaedia Britannica , 11th ed, 1910- Text, Translated by L. W. King Charles F. Horne: The Code of Hammurabi: Introduction was the ruler who chiefly established the greatness of Babylon, the world's first ...
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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 ...
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Resoures of Art, Biographies, Daily Life, Maps, Pictures and Research on Mesopotamia.
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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Finland The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, started in 1986, is a long-term undertaking to collect all published and unpublished Neo-Assyrian texts into an electronic database, Corpus of Neo-Assyrian (CNA), and maintain the database as a research tool; use the CNA ...
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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.
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Links to Halloran lexicon of Sumerian, paper analyzing the proto-language, and other Mesopotamian-related sites.
A summary of the Old Babylonian heroic poem, Gilgamesh, which describes the legendary story of Gilgamesh, King of Uruk.
www.wsu.edu/~dee/MESO/GILG.HTM
Exploring Ancient World Cultures Readings from the Ancient Near East Hammurabi's Code of Laws Translated by L. W. King When Anu the Sublime, King of the Anunaki, and Bel, the lord of Heaven and earth, who decreed the fate of the land, assigned to Marduk, the over-ruling son of Ea, God of righteousness, dominion over earthly man, and made him great among the Igigi, they called Babylon by his ...
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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 ...
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On Line Ancient Near Eastern Texts keyed to Britannica Online for Serious links to research on Babylonia ...
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Looting of Iraqi archaeological sites has been a major problem since the Gulf War. Includes clickable map of the throne room suite ...
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Ancient and modern texts on Mesopotamia: Religion, Mythology, Magic, Gods and Goddesses ...
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Exploring Ancient World Cultures Essays on the Ancient Near East Storytelling, the Meaning of Life, and The Epic of Gilgamesh Arthur A. Brown Stories do not need to inform us of anything. They do inform us of things. From The Epic of Gilgamesh, for example, we know something of the people who lived in the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the second and third millenniums BCE. We ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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DIGITAL LIBRARY Work in Progress Publications About CDLI Project Associates and Staff Related Projects Communications Method & Conventions Tools & Sundries Copyright © 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.
www.wsu.edu/~dee/GLOSSARY/CUNEI.HTM
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 ...
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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 ...
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An article from the Catholic Encyclopedia ...
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The Code of Hammurabi Of the several law codes surviving from the ancient Middle East, the most famous after the Hebrew Torah is the Code of Hammurabi, sixth king of the Amorite Dynasty of Old Babylon. It is best known from a beautifully engraved diorite stela now in the Louvre Museum which also depicts the king receiving the law from Shamash, the god of justice. This copy was made long after ...
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Discussion on the reasons, methods, and culture surrounding the building of the Tower of Babel ...
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Ian Lawton's Papers on Ancient Mesopotamia, covering the Pantheon of Gods, the Literary Texts, and a Refutation of the Theories of Zecharia Sitchin.
www.ianlawton.com/mesindex.htm
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 ...
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The Babylonian Creation Myth This poem was written in the 12th century BC, but the myths on which it was based date back to ancient Sumer. The most complete text was found on seven clay tablets. Below is a translation from Tablet IV which tells of the great battle between the sky god Marduk and the earth goddess Tiamat. Tablet IV They set up a throne for Marduk and he sat down facing his ...
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Table of Contents Gilgamesh & Sumer Mesopotamia Writing Transmission Sumerian and Akkadian Twelve Tablets Gilgamesh was a Real King Gilgamesh Must Die The Story Sex and Gender Under/Other Worlds Responsibility Heroes and Kings Strangeness and Difference Future Themes Bibliography Course Guide Unit 1 Gilgamesh Activities Gilgamesh/ Bible Activities WORLD LITERATURE I (ENG 251) Gilgamesh Study ...
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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 ...
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Kramer's Translation of a Gilgamesh Prologue This passage, as understood and translated by Samuel Kramer, would include the oldest known reference to Lilith. See the Sumerian Mythology FAQ (from which this is pirated) for a fuller discussion. I have included the larger context with the specific appearances fo Lilith in bold. The translation is from Kramer38:1f After heaven and earth had been ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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THE TOWER OF BABEL AND THE CONFUSION OF LANGUAGES by Lambert Dolphin The building of the Tower of Babel and the Confusion of Tongues (languages) in ancient Babylon is mentioned rather briefly in Genesis Chapters 10 and 11. Genesis 10 is the so-called Table of Nations --a list of 70 names of Noah's descendants through Shem, Ham, and Japheth. The list is probably not complete, but we are given a ...
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Ancient History | Ugarit | Arameans | Sign Guestbook | See Guestbook 2500 BC The Code of Hammurabi Translated by L. W. King With commentary from Charles F. Horne, Ph.D. (1915) and The Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1910 by the Rev. Claude Hermann Walter Johns, M.A. Litt.D. The Code of Hammurabi HAMMURABI'S CODE OF LAWS (circa 1780 B.C.) Translated by L. W. King When Anu the ...
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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.
mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/specex/ur/ur-flood.htm
Electronic Christian Media, - Bible software and electronic publishing. Developers of The Scroll Multimedia CD-ROM Study Bible - Over 1000 Photos, maps, timelines, 45 Video clips from israel, Hebrew and Greek pronounciation.
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The best on the web, a detailed study of Gilgamesh, King of Uruk.
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