- Catholic Encyclopedia: Babylonia
Covering aspects of geography, early history, the first and Chaldean empires.
www.newadvent.org/cathen/02179b.htm
- Ancient History Sourcebook: The Code of the Assura,
Assyrian legal code, circa 1075 B.C.E.
www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/1075assyriancode.html
- Cuneiform Numbers
Demonstrates the vertical wedge and corner edge system used for large and small numbers.
it.stlawu.edu/~dmelvill/mesomath/Numbers.html
- Contracts from Mesopotamia, c. 2300 - 428 BCE
Ancient History Sourcebook.
www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/mesopotamia-contracts.html
- Babylonia and Near Eastern Resources
From Restoring Christian Keys.
www.piney.com/BabIndex.html
- Hanging Gardens of Babylon@
Read about the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the terraced gardens that are often named as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Browse descriptions of the Gardens from ancient travelers and modern archaeologists, and see artists' renderings of how they might have appeared.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Seven_Wonders_of_the_Ancient_World/Hanging_Gardens_of_Babylon
- Woolley and the Great Flood
Examines the Mesopotamian flood tradition.
mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/specex/ur/ur-flood.htm
- Masada@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Ancient_History/Masada
- History of the Ancient Near East
Offers details about sites in ancient Israel, Iraq, Turkey, and elsewhere.
ancientneareast.tripod.com/index.html
- Tower of Babel@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Ziggurats/Tower_of_Babel
- Cyrus the Great (590-529 BCE)@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Persian_Empire/Cyrus_the_Great__590_529_BCE_
- Ancient Babylonia: The Ziggurats
Huge stepped structures that were one of the most important aspects of Babylonian religion and tradition.
www.bible-history.com/babylonia/BabyloniaThe_Ziggurat.htm
- Catholic Encyclopedia: Assyria
Covering geography, sources of Assyro-Babylonian history, and other topics.
www.newadvent.org/cathen/02007c.htm
- Ur@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Sumeria/Ur
- Ancient Iran - Persepolis - Persia
Includes a timeline, information on the Persian Wars, and Cyrus the Great.
www.crystalinks.com/iran.html
- Counting in Babylon
Weights, measures, numbering systems, fractions, and more.
www.phys.virginia.edu/classes/109N/lectures/babylon.html
- Greek Reports of Babylonia, Chaldea, and Assyria
From the Ancient History Sourcebook.
www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/greek-babylon.html
- Assyrian Kings List
Presented by Assyria Online.
www.aina.org/aol/kinglist
- Darius the Great (550-486 BCE)@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Persian_Empire/Darius_the_Great__550_486_BCE_
- Livius: Mesopotamia
Features articles on the history of ancient Mesopotamia as well as descriptions, pictures, and translations of cuneiform tablets from the region.
www.livius.org/babylonia.html
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