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The upper register shows Chaldeans from the city of Bit-Dakuri carrying tribute through a palm-plantation while the lower register shows an Assyrian inspector, seated (center), watching the collection of tribute at a bridge of boats (extreme...

The upper register shows Chaldeans from the city of Bit-Dakuri carrying tribute through a palm-plantation while the lower register shows an Assyrian inspector, seated (extreme right), watching the collection of tribute at a bridge of boats...

Mesopotamia (from the Greek, meaning 'between two rivers') was an ancient region located in the eastern Mediterranean bounded in the northeast by the Zagros Mountains and in the southeast by the Arabian Plateau, corresponding to modern-day...

Nebuchadnezzar II (r. 605/604-562 BCE) was the greatest King of ancient Babylon during the period of the Neo-Babylonian Empire (626-539 BCE), succeeding its founder, his father, Nabopolassar (r. 626-605 BCE). He is best known from the biblical...

In Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Abraham is a venerated patriarch whose relationship with God provides the foundational story for God's beneficial relationship with humanity. According to biblical tradition (and some say myth), Abraham...

The Empire of Trebizond was an offshoot of the Byzantine Empire that existed from 1204 to 1461 CE, ruled by the Megas Komnenos Dynasty, descendants of the Komnenos Byzantine emperors. The Empire of Trebizond has been far less researched than...

Mycenean Greece and the Orient about 1450 BC. Inset: Reference Map of the Nile Delta.

Map showing the Median, Lydian, Chaldean, and Egyptian empires around 600 BC.

Drawing by Faucher-Gudin depicting Philistines at war. Based on a photograph by Beato. From History of Egypt Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, VI.C by G. Maspero. Published in London, 1903-1904.