Babylonia (/ ˌ b æ b ɪ ˈ l oʊ n i ə /; Akkadian: ????????????????????, māt Akkadī) was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area based in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq and parts of Syria).A small Amorite-ruled state emerged in 1894 BC, which contained the minor administrative town of Babylon. It was a small provincial town during the Akkadian Empire …

Carl Benjamin (born 1979), also known by his online pseudonym Sargon of Akkad, is a British far-right anti-feminist YouTuber and political commentator. A former member of the Eurosceptic right-wing UK Independence Party (UKIP), he was one of its unsuccessful candidates for the South West England constituency in the 2019 European Parliament election.. During the …

Sources. There are very few cuneiform sources for the period between 594 BC and 557 BC, covering much of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar II, and the reigns of his three immediate successors; Amel-Marduk, Neriglissar and Labashi-Marduk. This lack of sources has the unfortunate effect that even though Nebuchadnezzar had the longest reign of all of them, less …

She further notices that the poem claiming writing as an invention by the founder of the first Sumerian city after the flood is a political and ethnic statement. ... During the reign of Naram-Sin of Akkad, the king accused Enmerkar of not recording his experience on a stele, so as a consequence he holds ... Wikipedia® is a registered trademark ...

Tiglath-Pileser I (/ ˈ t ɪ ɡ l ə θ p aɪ ˈ l iː z ər,-ˌ l æ θ, p ɪ-/; from the Hebraic form of Akkadian: ????????????????????????, romanized: Tukultī-apil-Ešarra, "my trust is in the son of Ešarra") was a king of Assyria during the Middle Assyrian period (1114–1076 BC). According to Georges Roux, Tiglath-Pileser was "one of the two or three great Assyrian monarchs since the ...

The Ishtar Gate was the eighth gate to the inner city of Babylon [citation needed] (in the area of present-day Hillah, Babil Governorate, Iraq).It was constructed circa 575 BCE by order of King Nebuchadnezzar II on the north side of the city. It was part of a grand walled processional way leading into the city. The walls were finished in glazed bricks mostly in blue, with animals and …

Gilgamesh (Akkadian: ????????????????, romanized: Gilgameš; originally Sumerian: ????????????????????, romanized: Bilgames) was a hero in ancient Mesopotamian mythology and the protagonist of the Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic poem written in Akkadian during the late 2nd millennium BC. He was possibly a historical king of the Sumerian city-state of Uruk, who was posthumously deified.

Ancient Semitic religion encompasses the polytheistic religions of the Semitic peoples from the ancient Near East and Northeast Africa.Since the term Semitic itself represents a rough category when referring to cultures, as opposed to languages, the definitive bounds of the term "ancient Semitic religion" are only approximate.. Semitic traditions and their pantheons fall into …

The Sumerian King List (abbreviated SKL) or Chronicle of the One Monarchy is an ancient literary composition written in Sumerian that was likely created and redacted to legitimize the claims to power of various city-states and kingdoms in southern Mesopotamia during the late third and early second millennium BC. It does so by repetitively listing Sumerian cities, the kings …

The city's patron deity was Nanna (in Akkadian, Sin), the Sumerian and Akkadian moon god, and the name of the city is in origin derived from the god's name, UNUG KI, literally "the abode (UNUG) of Nanna". The site is marked by the partially restored ruins of the Ziggurat of Ur, which contained the shrine of Nanna, excavated in the 1930s.

Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca nació el 21 de abril de 1915 en Chihuahua, México en un momento en el que país se encontraba sumido en una revolución política y social; los hacendados, caciques y terratenientes controlaban la mayor parte de las tierras fértiles de México mientras que los peones que laboraban en las haciendas en una especie de semiesclavitud se …

Hammurabi (c. 1810 – c. 1750 BC) was the sixth Amorite king of the Old Babylonian Empire, reigning from c. 1792 BC to c. 1750 BC.He was preceded by his father, Sin-Muballit, who abdicated due to failing health.During his reign, he conquered Elam and the city-states of Larsa, Eshnunna, and Mari.He ousted Ishme-Dagan I, the king of Assyria, and forced his son Mut …

Akkad may refer to: . Akkad (city), the capital of the Akkadian Empire Akkadian Empire, the first ancient empire of Mesopotamia; Akkad SC, Iraqi football club; People with the name. Abbas el-Akkad, Egyptian writer; Abdulrahman Akkad, Syrian LGBT activist; Bahaa el-Din Ahmed Hussein el-Akkad, Egyptian Muslim imam; Hassan Akkad, Syrian photographer and filmmaker ...

Ebla (Sumerian: ???????? eb₂-la, Arabic: إبلا, modern: تل مرديخ, Tell Mardikh) was one of the earliest kingdoms in Syria.Its remains constitute a tell located about 55 km (34 mi) southwest of Aleppo near the village of Mardikh.Ebla was an important center throughout the 3rd millennium BC and in the first half of the 2nd millennium BC. Its discovery proved the Levant was a center ...