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Mesopotamian Empires



Mesopotamian Empires
Widely considered to be the cradle of civilization, Mesopotamia saw the rise of many of the earliest and greatest empires, including Babylon, Syria, and Assyria. The following documents discuss the important contributions that these empires made to world history and the development of large-scale civilization.
Titles

 The Code of Hammurabi.

 Babylonian Account of Creation

 Chaldaean Account of the Deluge

 The Legend of Sargon

 Ishtar’s Descent Into Hades.

 Penitential Psalms

 Ancient Babylonian Laws

 The Gatha Ahunavaiti (Zoroaster)

 The Gatha Ustavanti (Zoroaster)

 The Legend of the Tower of Babel and the Confusion of Tongues

 The Overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah

 Assyrian Correspondence.

 Assyrian Inscriptions

 Assyrian Astronomical Tablets

 Rise and Fall of Assyria; Destruction of Nineveh (Lenormant and Chevallier)

 Accession of Solomon; Building of the Temple at Jerusalem (Henry Hart Milman)

 The Code of Hammurabi

 Abraham Leaves Ur of Babylonia (Percy Handcock)

 Inscription of Sennacherib.

 The Moabite Stone

 The Egibi Tablets

 The Creation According to the Ancient Hebrews1

 Rediscovery of Earth’s Oldest City (Edgar J. Banks)

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