The Law of Hammurabi and Its Audience
... the Elamite king carried home and erected in his god's temple Hammurabi's Stele together with a number of other Babylonian trophy monuments. Additional stone fragments found at Susa suggest that there were two, possibly even three such law Stelae of Hammurabi, presumably originally set up in other c ...
... the Elamite king carried home and erected in his god's temple Hammurabi's Stele together with a number of other Babylonian trophy monuments. Additional stone fragments found at Susa suggest that there were two, possibly even three such law Stelae of Hammurabi, presumably originally set up in other c ...
The relation of Babylonian astronomy to its culture and society
... period of invisibility. These months are either 29 or 30 days long; 12 such months have approximately 354 days. Since such a year is by 11 days shorter than a solar year, a month is added when the seasons do not fit the calendar any more; one wanted the seasonal activities to remain in the same month ...
... period of invisibility. These months are either 29 or 30 days long; 12 such months have approximately 354 days. Since such a year is by 11 days shorter than a solar year, a month is added when the seasons do not fit the calendar any more; one wanted the seasonal activities to remain in the same month ...
Middle Eastern Presentation
... Tale of the superhuman Sumerian king, Gilgamesh Painful search for everlasting life ...
... Tale of the superhuman Sumerian king, Gilgamesh Painful search for everlasting life ...
Mesopotamia Day 11-Intro to Hammurabi
... family members should treat each other. The famous phrase “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” is based ...
... family members should treat each other. The famous phrase “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” is based ...
DBQ - Hammurabi`s Code1
... How could you use these laws about personal injury to argue that Hammurabi’s Code was not just? Is justice absolute? That is, is a just punishment in 1800 BCE also a just punishment today? Explain your ...
... How could you use these laws about personal injury to argue that Hammurabi’s Code was not just? Is justice absolute? That is, is a just punishment in 1800 BCE also a just punishment today? Explain your ...
New Working Bibliography
... attempts to add an interpretation for them. Hafford, William B. “Who were the Assyrians?” Calliope September, 2004, Vol.15, 2-5. This is a short, but interesting introduction to the Assyrians; explains their skills as nomads and as feared warriors. Hafford, William B. “The Cradle of Civilization”. C ...
... attempts to add an interpretation for them. Hafford, William B. “Who were the Assyrians?” Calliope September, 2004, Vol.15, 2-5. This is a short, but interesting introduction to the Assyrians; explains their skills as nomads and as feared warriors. Hafford, William B. “The Cradle of Civilization”. C ...
EARLY CIVILIZATIONS Reading study guide
... Engineers devised a chain pump that brought water from the Euphrates River to irrigate the gardens. The gardens were a lush mountain of vegetation in the middle of a flat, dry desert. Government and Law – Hammurabi came to power in 1792 B.C.E., and is the best known of all Mesopotamian kings. As he ...
... Engineers devised a chain pump that brought water from the Euphrates River to irrigate the gardens. The gardens were a lush mountain of vegetation in the middle of a flat, dry desert. Government and Law – Hammurabi came to power in 1792 B.C.E., and is the best known of all Mesopotamian kings. As he ...
1. Proto-Cuneiform Account-Books and Journals - CDLI
... Numerical and metrological systems P. Damerow of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, and J. Friberg of the Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg must be credited with having early on discovered the importance of the numerical signs in the archaic record and making ...
... Numerical and metrological systems P. Damerow of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, and J. Friberg of the Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg must be credited with having early on discovered the importance of the numerical signs in the archaic record and making ...
Early Civilizations
... were slaves. It seems that slavery and civilization emerged together. The Code of Hammurabi mentions slavery in a casual, accepted, matter-of-fact way. Female slaves, captured in the many wars among rival Mesopotamian cities, were put to work in large-scale weaving enterprises, while males maintaine ...
... were slaves. It seems that slavery and civilization emerged together. The Code of Hammurabi mentions slavery in a casual, accepted, matter-of-fact way. Female slaves, captured in the many wars among rival Mesopotamian cities, were put to work in large-scale weaving enterprises, while males maintaine ...
A Better Model for the Stone Age — Part 2
... superseding and dominant on other cultures. The dominant culture that had been in this area prior to the Jemdat Nasr period was a culture that is known to the archaeologist as the Halaf culture, named after Tell Halaf where it was first identified. One of the best summaries of our present knowledge ...
... superseding and dominant on other cultures. The dominant culture that had been in this area prior to the Jemdat Nasr period was a culture that is known to the archaeologist as the Halaf culture, named after Tell Halaf where it was first identified. One of the best summaries of our present knowledge ...
The Myth of a 12th Planet
... Readers of Zecharia Sitchin’s books, particularly The 12th Planet, will recognize the above seal, VA 243 (so named because it is number 243 in the collection of the Vorderasiatische Museum in Berlin). This seal is the centerpiece of Sitchin’s theory that the Sumerians had advanced astronomical knowl ...
... Readers of Zecharia Sitchin’s books, particularly The 12th Planet, will recognize the above seal, VA 243 (so named because it is number 243 in the collection of the Vorderasiatische Museum in Berlin). This seal is the centerpiece of Sitchin’s theory that the Sumerians had advanced astronomical knowl ...
Hanigalbat and the land Hani
... lower Hanu land, for instance more down along the river or to a Hanu (Hana?28) land across the Euphrates. Upper Hanu has to be located in the Habur, probably in the neighbourhood of Harran. Therefore I wonder did a geographical difference exist between the terms Hana and Hani (Hali) in the Bronze Ag ...
... lower Hanu land, for instance more down along the river or to a Hanu (Hana?28) land across the Euphrates. Upper Hanu has to be located in the Habur, probably in the neighbourhood of Harran. Therefore I wonder did a geographical difference exist between the terms Hana and Hani (Hali) in the Bronze Ag ...
Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia (/ˌmɛsəpəˈteɪmiə/, from the Ancient Greek: Μεσοποταμία ""[land] between rivers""; Arabic: بلاد الرافدين bilād ar-rāfidayn; Persian: میانرودان miyān rodān; Syriac: ܒܝܬ ܢܗܪܝܢ Beth Nahrain ""land of rivers"") is a name for the area of the Tigris–Euphrates river system, corresponding to modern-day Iraq, Kuwait, the northeastern section of Syria, as well as parts of southeastern Turkey and of southwestern Iran.Widely considered to be the cradle of civilization by the Western world, Bronze Age Mesopotamia included Sumer and the Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian empires, all native to the territory of modern-day Iraq. In the Iron Age, it was controlled by the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Empires. The indigenous Sumerians and Akkadians (including Assyrians and Babylonians) dominated Mesopotamia from the beginning of written history (c. 3100 BC) to the fall of Babylon in 539 BC, when it was conquered by the Achaemenid Empire. It fell to Alexander the Great in 332 BC, and after his death, it became part of the Greek Seleucid Empire.Around 150 BC, Mesopotamia was under the control of the Parthian Empire. Mesopotamia became a battleground between the Romans and Parthians, with parts of Mesopotamia coming under ephemeral Roman control. In AD 226, it fell to the Sassanid Persians and remained under Persian rule until the 7th century Muslim conquest of Persia of the Sasanian Empire. A number of primarily neo-Assyrian and Christian native Mesopotamian states existed between the 1st century BC and 3rd century AD, including Adiabene, Osroene, and Hatra.