The history of Egypt at this time is almost a blank and the doings of even major Babylonian kings like Nebuchadnezzar have had to be reconstructed from a few building inscriptions supplemented by ...
Inconvenient historical realities have never discouraged rulers from reshaping the history of Babylon in their own image and generating new myths in the process. One of the most brazen examples is ...
Marduk then appropriated Tishpak’s chief symbol, the lion-dragon hybrid beast known as mušhuššu, or “furious snake,” with whom he would be associated for the rest of Babylonian history.
Damien Chazelle's 2022 historical dramedy "Babylon" is one of the most notorious box office bombs of the past few years, and ...
This volume offers a practical introduction to the repertoire of personal names recorded in cuneiform texts from Babylonia in the first millennium ... data as part of their exploration of the social ...
Hayim Lapin - Professor of History and Robert H. Smith Professor of Jewish Studies ... recommend Monika Amsler’s well written and carefully argued new monograph, The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique ...