Akkadian (/ ə ˈ k eɪ d i ən /, Akkadian: ???????????????? akkadû) is an East Semitic language, now extinct, that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia (Akkad, Assyria, Isin, Larsa and Babylonia) from the third millennium BC until its gradual replacement by Akkadian-influenced Old Aramaic among Mesopotamians by the 8th century BC.. It is the earliest documented Semitic language.

The Akkadian Empire (/ ə ˈ k eɪ d i ən /) was the first ancient empire of Mesopotamia after the long-lived civilization of Sumer.It was centered in the city of Akkad (/ ˈ æ k æ d /) and its surrounding region. The empire united Akkadian and Sumerian speakers under one rule. The Akkadian Empire exercised influence across Mesopotamia, the Levant, and Anatolia, sending …

Actaeon (/ æ k ˈ t iː ə n /; Ancient Greek: Ἀκταίων Aktaion), in Greek mythology, son of the priestly herdsman Aristaeus and Autonoe in Boeotia, was a famous Theban hero. Like Achilles in a later generation, he was trained by the centaur Chiron.. He fell to the fatal wrath of Artemis, but the surviving details of his transgression vary: "the only certainty is in what Aktaion ...

Nineveh (/ ˈ n ɪ n ɪ v ə /; Arabic: نَيْنَوَىٰ Naynawā; Syriac: ܢܝܼܢܘܹܐ, romanized: Nīnwē; Akkadian: ???????????????? URU NI.NU.A Ninua) was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia, located on the outskirts of Mosul in modern-day northern Iraq.It is located on the eastern bank of the Tigris River and was the capital and largest city of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, as ...

The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary was conceived to provide more than lexical information alone, more than a one-to-one equivalent between Akkadian and English words. By presenting each word in a meaningful context, usually with a full and idiomatic translation, it recreates the cultural milieu and thus in many ways assumes the function of an ...

Sumerian (???????? Emegir "native tongue") is the language of ancient Sumer.It is believed to be a language isolate and to have been spoken in ancient Mesopotamia (also known as the Fertile Crescent), in the area that is modern-day Iraq.. Akkadian gradually replaced Sumerian as a spoken language in the area around 2000 BC (the exact date is debated), but Sumerian continued to be …

Look up Akkadian in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Akkadians, inhabitants of the Akkadian Empire; Akkadian language, an extinct Eastern Semitic language; Akkadian literature, literature in this language; Akkadian cuneiform, early writing system; Akkadian mythology, early Mesopotamian religion;

descendants of Noah’s son, Shem). The oldest known Semitic language is Akkadian, which was written in the "wedge-shaped" or cuneiform system of signs. The earliest Akkadian texts were written on clay tablets in about 2400 B.C. Babylonian and Assyrian are later dialects of Akkadian; both influenced the development of Hebrew. Because the

Origin & meaning. Many sources derive it from via Hebrew, from Akkadian/Assyrian, literally translated as "My God has answered me." It is composed of three Hebrew elements: EL, meaning GOD; ANA, meaning ANSWERED; and the Yud, located after EL, indicating first person possession. Biblical sources: "And he erected there an altar, and called it El- [God] elohe-Israel [Eli, the God …

The art of Mesopotamia has survived in the record from early hunter-gatherer societies (8th millennium BC) on to the Bronze Age cultures of the Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian empires. These empires were later replaced in the Iron Age by the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian empires.Widely considered to be the cradle of civilization, Mesopotamia brought …