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- History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
4: ...s known as [[Venus figurines]] have been found mainly in central [[Europe]]. The [[Venus of Willendor...
6: ... stones were used for high quality sculpture and inlays. [[Clay]] was used for pottery and terra cott...
8: ...mong them are a wooden harp with gold and mosaic inlay with a black-bearded golden bull's head.
11: ...d head, made of diorite, is believed to represent Hammurabi. The head has the wide open eyes, typical of the...
22: These are only a few of the many sculptures produced in ancient... - Ziggurat (6043 bytes)
9: ...two of which (side flanked) were thought to have only ascended half the ziggurat's height.
11: ... Heaven and Earth." Most likely being built by [[Hammurabi]], the ziggurat's core was found to have containe...
17: ...ity]] had its own patron [[god]] or [[goddess]]. Only [[priest]]s were permitted inside the ziggurat a... - Literature (25676 bytes)
5: ...zation|historical periods]]. Popular belief commonly holds that the literature of a [[nation]], for e...
9: ...as well as letters. To others, a literature must only include examples of text composed of letters, or...
54: ...y the aesthetic richness typical of poetry using only prose
62: ...]]s and the modern [[psychological novel]]. In mainland Europe, the [[Spain|Spaniard]] [[Miguel de Cer...
78: ...ht count as legal literature. The law tables of [[Hammurabi]] of [[Babylon]] might count. [[Roman law|Roman c... - Babylonia (8254 bytes)
5: ...n southern Mesopotamia under their sixth ruler, [[Hammurabi]] ([[1780 BC|1780]]–[[1750 BC]]). He was a ...
13: ...n once more the mistress of the civilized world. Only a small fragment of his annals has been discover...
23: ... of the (other) provinces" of the empire. It was only when [[Darius Hystaspis]] ("the Magian") acquire... - Babylon (9716 bytes)
8: ...provincial town, until it became the capital of [[Hammurabi]]'s empire ([[18th century BC]]) From this time o...
16: ... underwent a constant state of revolt, which was only suppressed by the complete destruction of the ca... - Ur (11926 bytes)
1: ...e of marine regression, the remains are now well inland in present-day [[Iraq]], south of the Euphrate...
15: ...est such documents known, preceding the [[code of Hammurabi]]. After his death he became a hero-figure: one o...
37: ...ted to about [[2600 BC]]. The finds included the unlooted tomb of Queen [[Puabi]] [2] – her name...
52: ... Hussein]] money bills to genuine rugs. There is only one shop on the actual site.
56: ... around it, and will observe very little damage. Only the top is covered with debris and is at times a... - Akkadian Empire (9189 bytes)
20: ...tters of the kings themselves, more especially of Hammurabi. Among the latter is one ordering the dispatch of...
22: ...n law|a code of laws]]. This was made by order of Hammurabi after the expulsion of the Elamites and the settl...
24: ...ther of a witness to a deed dated in the reign of Hammurabi's grandfather.
26: '''Ammiditana''', the great-grandson of Hammurabi, still entitled himself "king of the land of the ...
28: ... that is surely exaggerated. As yet, the name of only one of them has been found in a contemporary doc... - Mari, Syria (5848 bytes)
2: ...til [[1759 BC|1759 BCE]], when it was sacked by [[Hammurabi]]. [[Abraham]] himself is thought to have passed...
28: ... the numerous state archives tablets that recount Hammurabi turning on his old ally [[Zimri-Lim]], and defeat... - Timeline of Middle Eastern History (12425 bytes)
112: ''(see also [[Moses]], [[Exodus]], [[Hammurabi]], [[List of Pharaohs]], [[Aegean civilization]])... - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
19: ...of Kish]], dating to ca. [[2650 BC]]. But we can only really trace Elamite history from records dating...
32: Marlik Region, Tappe Hasanlu, Iran 14th-13th centuries BCE. Excavated by The ...
36: ...alitions against the rising power of Babylon, but Hammurabi (c. 1792 - c. 1750 BCE) was not to be denied, and...
38: ...te I attacked Samsuiluna (c. 1749 - c. 1712 BCE), Hammurabi's son, and dealt so serious a defeat to the Babyl...
53: ...tela whereon was inscribed the famous law code of Hammurabi. Shilkhak-In-Shushinak, brother and successor of ... - Assyria (13688 bytes)
17: ...[Hammurabi]] of [[Babylon]] conquer Ashshur. With Hammurabi, the various ''karum'' in Anatolia ceased trade a...
21: ...]], followed up on expansion to the northwest, mainly at the expense of the Hittites, reaching as far ...
29: ...he borders of the empire he consolidated reached only as far west as the Khabur. He was succeeded by ...
31: ...erranean and exacted tribute from [[Phoenicia]]. Unlike any before, the Assyrians began boasting in th...
50: ...another army to pacify them, Esarhaddon died suddenly in 669 BC.
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