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- History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
4: ... [[Willendorf]], [[Austria]], is a well-known example.
11: ...d head, made of diorite, is believed to represent Hammurabi. The head has the wide open eyes, typical of the...
16: One of the earliest examples of Egyptian sculpture is the [[Narmer Palette|P...
20: Another example of Egyptian sculpture are the statues of the Pha...
27: ...ated lyre player from 2000 BC. Statues of a lute player and a harpist were found together in a single... - Ziggurat (6043 bytes)
1: ...eral terraced stories and were topped with a [[temple]] fit for any [[god]].
3: [[Image:White_ziggurat.jpg|frame|center|White Temple at Uruk (Sumer)]]
5: ...White Temple is set. Its purpose is to get the temple closer to the [[heaven]]s, and provide access fr...
9: ...t there were three staircases leading to the [[temple]], two of which (side flanked) were thought to h...
11: ... Heaven and Earth." Most likely being built by [[Hammurabi]], the ziggurat's core was found to have containe... - Literature (25676 bytes)
1: ...in "literature" (plural) but not in "Literature" (plural). What is intellectual and meaningful is subj...
5: ...olds that the literature of a [[nation]], for example, comprises the collection of texts which make it...
7: ...y or may not have [[nationalism|nationalistic]] implications. The [[Western canon|Western Canon]] form...
9: ...mbolic written language ([[hieroglyph]]s, for example). Even more conservative interpreters of the con...
11: ...ization|characters]]. [[Genre fiction]] (for example: romance, crime, or science fiction) may also be... - Babylonia (8254 bytes)
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5: ...n southern Mesopotamia under their sixth ruler, [[Hammurabi]] ([[1780 BC|1780]]–[[1750 BC]]). He was a ...
7: ...sopotamia. The armies of Babylonia were well-disciplined, and they conquered the city-states of [[Isin...
15: ...nidus where he recounts his restoration of the temple of the Moon-god at Harran; as well as by a procl...
17: ...h guards were placed at the gates of the great temple of Bel, where the services continued without int... - Babylon (9716 bytes)
3: {{Template:Ancient Mesopotamia}}
8: ...provincial town, until it became the capital of [[Hammurabi]]'s empire ([[18th century BC]]) From this time o...
16: ...ction of the capital. In [[689 BC]] its walls, temples and palaces were razed to the ground and the ru...
18: ...e Assyrian empire the Babylonians saw another example of divine vengeance.
27: ... the ancient world. Nebuchadnezzar ordered the complete reconstruction of the imperial grounds, includ... - Ur (11926 bytes)
3: ...and by the settlement mound. The ziggurat is a temple of [[Nanna (Sumerian deity)|Nanna]], a [[deity]]...
15: ...est such documents known, preceding the [[code of Hammurabi]]. After his death he became a hero-figure: one o...
33: ...mes, owing to its sanctity, Ur became a favourite place of [[sepulture]], so that after it had ceased ...
35: ...sidered rich in remains, and relatively easy to explore.
37: ...and E-hur-sag (a temple building). Outside the temple area many houses used in everyday life were foun... - Akkadian Empire (9189 bytes)
2: ...is grandson, [[Naram-Sin]]. The date of Sargon is placed by modern scholars around [[2300 BC]] (by [[N...
10: ... [[Amorites]] (''Amurru''), as the seminomadic people of Syria and Canaan were called in Akkadian. It ...
14: ..., and on the lap of one of them (statue E) is the plan of his palace, with the scale of measurement at...
18: ...g the first centuries of this period kings and people in high position often had Amorite names, and su...
20: ...tters of the kings themselves, more especially of Hammurabi. Among the latter is one ordering the dispatch of... - Mari, Syria (5848 bytes)
2: ...til [[1759 BC|1759 BCE]], when it was sacked by [[Hammurabi]]. [[Abraham]] himself is thought to have passed...
6: ... in Paris. Discoveries came quickly, with the temple of Ishtar being discovered in the next month. M...
12: ...a BCE. The inhabitants of Mari were a Semitic people, thought to be part of the same Eblaite and Akka...
24: ... ancient Near East and provided more than 500 new place names, enough to redraw or even draw up the ge...
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)
31: * [[Wheel]] and [[plough]] both invented in ancient Mesopotamia
32: * Around [[5100 BC]] – [[Temple#Religion|Temple]]s founded in South [[Mesopotamia]]
38: * c. [[4000 BC]] - first examples of [[Sumerian]] [[writing]] in Mesopotamia
87: * Completion of the [[Great Pyramid of Giza]]
112: ''(see also [[Moses]], [[Exodus]], [[Hammurabi]], [[List of Pharaohs]], [[Aegean civilization]])... - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
5: Its culture played a crucial role in the [[Achaemenid]] [[Persia...
16: {{Template:Ancient Mesopotamia}}
19: ...]. [[Proto-Elamite]] influence from the [[Persian plateau]] in Susa becomes visible from about [[3200 ...
21: ... area, spread out on the [[Iranian plateau]]; examples of Elamite remains north and east of Iran are [...
36: ...alitions against the rising power of Babylon, but Hammurabi (c. 1792 - c. 1750 BCE) was not to be denied, and... - Assyria (13688 bytes)
1: :''For the modern-day peoples in northern Iraq and neighboring areas, see [[A...
2: {{Template:Ancient Mesopotamia}}
15: ...xtensive contact with cities in the [[Anatolia]]n plateau. The Assyrians established "merchant colonie...
17: ...[Hammurabi]] of [[Babylon]] conquer Ashshur. With Hammurabi, the various ''karum'' in Anatolia ceased trade a...
29: ...on, deporting populations in the north to far off places. Apart from pushing the boundary with Babylo...
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