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- Esther (5002 bytes)
2: ... Persia|Artaxerxes II]]), and heroine of the Biblical [[Book of Esther]] which is named after her.
7: ...at Esther hid her nationality and lineage as Mordecai had advised. In addition [[God]]'s workings are ...
9: ...ated, as the [[Semitic languages|Semitic]] name ''Ishtar'' may share a common origin with [[Indo-European ...
12: ...n|Benjamite]]. She resided with her cousin [[Mordecai]], who held some office in the household of the ...
14: ...anged on the [[gallows]] he had intended for Mordecai; and the Jews established an annual feast, the f... - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
1: ...' [[planetary orbit|orbits]] are [[ellipse|elliptical]], Venus's orbit is the closest to [[circle|circ...
3: ...e, making it one of only two heavenly bodies that can be seen both day and night (the other being the ...
5: ...]n civilization (the Mayans developed a religious calendar based on Venus's motion) and must have been...
7: ...'[[Wiktionary:Venereal|Venereal]]'', is avoided because of its modern association with [[sexually tran...
11: == Physical characteristics == - Babylon (9716 bytes)
4: ...given to Babel which means Confusion. It was the capital city of [[Babylonia]] in [[Mesopotamia]] (in...
8: ...C]]) From this time onward it continued to be the capital of Babylonia.
10: ... extent and grandeur, but in process of time it became subject to [[Assyria]]. It rebelled against the...
14: ...mage:Babylon relief.jpg|right|thumb|Detail of the Ishtar Gate]]
16: ... and the rubbish thrown into the [[Arakhtu]], the canal which bordered the earlier Babylon on the sout... - Sumer (14409 bytes)
5: ...ed as a [[language isolate]] in [[Linguistics]] because it belongs to no known language family, as com...
10: ...us [[city-state]]s, each centered on a temple dedicated to the patron [[god]] of the city and ruled ov...
14: ...ome to suggest that Gilgamesh really was a historical king of Uruk.
16: ...at of '''Eannatum''' of Lagash, who annexed practically all of Sumer, including Kish, Uruk, Ur, and [[...
18: ...n Gulf to the Mediterranean. He is the last ethnically Sumerian king before the arrival of the Semiti... - Easter (31700 bytes)
2: ...ut this time of year around AD 30-33. (''Easter'' can also refer to the season of the church year, las...
4: ...ughter of the Passover lambs (perhaps for theological reasons). This would put the Last Supper slightl...
6: ...]] and [[historian]] [[Bede]], this month was dedicated to the [[pagan]] [[fertility goddess]] [[Eostr...
59: ...lar—but not identical—to the [[Hebrew Calendar]]. The precise date of Easter has often bee...
61: ...stern Orthodox churches use the original [[Julian calendar]], their dates are not usually aligned in t... - Aphrodite (14648 bytes)
4: ...in [[Boeotia]] ([[Virgil]] I, 720). She was also called ''Kypris'' or ''Cytherea'' {{Greek myth (Olym...
10: ...lling ''Astarte''); her [[Etruscan mythology|Etruscan]] equivalent was [[Turan (goddess)|Turan]].
16: ...of Rhea, the [[Earth Mother]], whom Homer has relocated to Olympus. After this story, Aphrodite herse...
18: ...htaroth]]. It is said that she first tentatively came ashore at [[Cytherea]], a stopping place for tr...
25: ...oom without supper -->). And she is the original cause of the [[Trojan War]] itself: not only did she... - Chaldean mythology (2527 bytes)
2: '''Chaldean mythology''', also called '''Chaldaic mythology''', is the collective n...
4: ...rvants for themselves, but freed them when they became too much to handle.
6: ...anna]]'s descent into the underworld strikingly recalls the story of [[Persephone]].
11: ...as [[Nanna]]. Sin and [[Ningal]] gave birth to [[Ishtar|Inanna]] (goddess of love and war) and to [[Utu]]... - Sargon II of Assyria (8855 bytes)
6: ...n his way back, he had [[Samaria]] rebuilt as the capital of the new province of Samerina and settled ...
8: ...re to follow: Kar-[[Nabu]], Kar-[[Sin]] and Kar-[[Ishtar]], all named after Babylonian gods and resettled ...
10: ...s-reliefs in the palace of [[Dur-Sharrukin]]. The campaign was probably motivated by the fact that the...
12: ...errain: the war-chariots had to be dismantled and carried by soldiers (with the king still in the char...
14: ...as the usual carnage, but King Rusas managed to escape. The horses of his chariot had been killed by A... - Mari, Syria (5848 bytes)
2: ...ncient city in [[Syria]] situated at the modern locality of '''Tell Hariri''', on the western bank of ...
4: ==Discovery and excavation==
6: ...t of Sumerian culture". Since the beginning of excavations, over 25,000 clay tables in [[Akkadian lan...
8: ...ench archaelogist Andre Parrot, "each time a vertical probe was commenced in order to trace the site's...
12: ...since the 5th millennium BCE, but the real significance of the city was during the third and second mi... - Wonders of the Ancient World (11560 bytes)
1: ... the World''' have been compiled over the ages to catalogue the most spectacular man-made construction...
3: ...diterranean]] rim. The number seven was chosen because the Greeks believed it to be the representatio...
8: ...), and the scholar [[Callimachus]] of [[Cyrene]] (ca 305–240 BC) at the Museum of [[Alexandria, ...
14: ...leum of Maussollos|Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus]]
18: The earliest lists had the [[Ishtar Gate]] as the seventh wonder of the world instead... - Virgo (3620 bytes)
11: starname = [[Spica]] (α Vir) |
23: *[[Serpens|Serpens Caput]] |
28: ... easily found through its bright α star, Spica.
31: ...e ("follow the arc to Arcturus and speed on to Spica").
38: ...h of [[Callisto (mythology)|Callisto]], either as Callisto herself, or as [[Hera]]. [[Persephone]] (wh... - Uruk (2699 bytes)
3: ...the [[Euphrates]], on the line of the ancient Nil canal, in a region of marshes, about 140 miles SSE f...
6: ...on center. In times of famine, a family might dedicate children to the temple as oblates.
8: Uruk played a very important part in the political history of the country from an early time, exerc...
10: ...g-list confirms it. From Uruk the center of political gravity seems to have moved to [[Ur]]."
12: ...d "entered the sea and disappeared". Other historical kings of Uruk include Lugalzagesi of Umma (now D... - Nineveh (10193 bytes)
3: ...in [[Iraq]]. This "exceeding great city" as it is called in the [[Book of Jonah]], lay on the eastern ...
5: ...th flowed into it from many sources, so that it became one of the greatest of all ancient cities.
8: ...s to [[Sin]], [[Nergal]], [[Nanna]], [[Shamash]], Ishtar, and [[Nabu]] of [[Borsippa]].
10: ...s penetrated its walls. An elaborate system of 18 canals brought water from the hills to Nineveh, and ...
13: ...was razed to the ground. The Assyrian empire then came to an end, the Medes and Babylonians dividing i...
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