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- Luxor (8772 bytes)
16: ...cians of [[Byblos]] and [[Tyre]], the [[Minoans]] from the island of [[Crete]], the [[Greece|Greek]]s ...
18: ... to match. [[Wenamun]], the priest of Amun, moved from Thebes to [[Byblos]], around [[1070s BC|1075 BC...
20: ... to attack and destroy Thebes. Doing so, he acted friendly to Egypt, kicking out the [[Kushite]] [[Tah...
25: ...Amun, where the statue of the god was transferred from [[Karnak]] during the holy days of the
28: ...sts, who were still versant in [[hieroglyphics]]. From that moment on, the grandeur of Thebes was to b... - Cuneiform script (7588 bytes)
7: ...process quicker and easier: People began to write from left to right in horizontal rows (rotating coun...
13: ...aphically distinguishes the logograms ([[kanji]]) from syllabary characters ([[kana]]) but otherwise r...
15: ...ngress.jpg|right|thumbnail|250px|Cuneiform tablet from the Kirkor Minassian collection in the [[Librar...
16: ...an used, together with a handful of logograms for frequently occurring words like "god" and "king." T...
23: ... Botta were the remains of the great library of [[Assurbanipal]], a royal archive containing tens of thousands o... - Babylon (9716 bytes)
4: ...k form of ''[[Babel]],'' which is derived in turn from the [[Semitic]] form ''bab-Illu'', meaning "The...
8: ...l of [[Hammurabi]]'s empire ([[18th century BC]]) From this time onward it continued to be the capital...
10: ...as besieged and taken over by [[Sennacherib]] and Assurbanipal (Kandalanu) again.
18: ... and starved into surrender. Assur-bani-pal (or [[Assurbanipal]]) purified the city and celebrated a "service of...
43: ...ical knowledge of Babylon's topography is derived from the classical writers, the inscriptions of Nebu... - Ancient music (3386 bytes)
4: ...s of [[Sumer]]ian writing in [[Mesopotamia]] date from around [[4000 BC]]. So this is when the era of ...
6: ...music, there remains but one meagre scrap: a line from [[Terence]]'s ''[[Hecyra]]'' set to music by hi...
12: ... Mesopotamia]] and is contemporary [[Iraq]]. Some fragments are in [[Pennsylvania]], some in the [[Bri...
14: == Harps from Syria and Egypt ==
16: ...seven strings. True harps are shown in [[mural]]s from the time [[Ramses III]] of [[Egypt]], about [[1... - Cuneiform (script) (7717 bytes)
7: ...process quicker and easier: People began to write from left to right in horizontal rows (rotating coun...
13: ...aphically distinguishes the logograms ([[kanji]]) from syllabary characters ([[kana]]) but otherwise r...
16: ...an used, together with a handful of logograms for frequently occurring words like "god" and "king." T...
23: ... Botta were the remains of the great library of [[Assurbanipal]], a royal archive containing tens of thousands o...
27: ... them a copy of a recently discovered inscription from the reign of the Assyrian emperor [[Tiglath-Pil... - Nineveh (10193 bytes)
3: ...aving an average breadth of 20 km (10 mi) or more from the river back toward the eastern hills. This w...
5: ...ting the East and the West, wealth flowed into it from many sources, so that it became one of the grea...
8: ...h had to wait for the neo-Assyrians, particularly from the time of [[Ashurnasirpal II]] (ruled 883-859...
10: ...s. An elaborate system of 18 canals brought water from the hills to Nineveh, and several sections of a...
16: tyranny and violence, from the Caucasus and the Caspian to the
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