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![Ancient Persian Gods, Heroes, and Creatures - The Complete List](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/7983.jpg?v=1724625664)
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Ancient Persian Gods, Heroes, and Creatures - The Complete List
The term 'mythology' comes from the Greek mythos (story-of-the-people) and logos (word or speech), meaning the spoken story of a people. Every civilization of the ancient world developed a belief system, which is characterized as 'mythology'...
![Egyptian Gods - The Complete List](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/3463.jpg?v=1723076403-1721373592)
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Egyptian Gods - The Complete List
The gods and goddesses of Ancient Egypt were an integral part of the people's everyday lives for over 3,000 years. There were over 2,000 deities in the Egyptian pantheon, many whose names are well known - Isis, Osiris, Horus, Amun, Ra, Hathor...
![Sassanian Kings List & Commentary](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/11937.jpg?v=1713343863)
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Sassanian Kings List & Commentary
The Sassanian Empire (224-651) was the greatest expression of Persian culture in the ancient world. It was consciously modeled on the earlier Achaemenid Empire (c. 550-330 BCE) which established Persian supremacy in the region and developed...
![Achaemenid Kings List & Commentary](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/11957.jpg?v=1700100363)
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Achaemenid Kings List & Commentary
The Achaemenid Empire (c. 550-330 BCE) was the first great Persian political entity in Western and Central Asia which stretched, at its peak, from Asia Minor to the Indus Valley and Mesopotamia through Egypt. It was founded by Cyrus II (the...
![King-list of Egypt, Detail of the 18th Dynasty](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/5367.jpg?v=1700100366)
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King-list of Egypt, Detail of the 18th Dynasty
A pharaoh was known primarily by his throne name. This was traditionally a statement about his divine father, the sun-god Ra, so all cartouches with throne names display a sun-god at the top. A king's birth name was the only name he had already...
![Neo-Assyrian Cuneiform Lexical List](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/5037.jpg?v=1724436666)
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Neo-Assyrian Cuneiform Lexical List
Neo-Assyrian lexical list of names of stones on a clay tablet.
![Babylonian Cuneiform Lexical List](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/5036.jpg?v=1709264349)
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Babylonian Cuneiform Lexical List
Late Babylonian lexical list of personal names on a clay tablet.
![List of Mayflower Passengers by William Bradford](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/13233.jpg?v=1713413229)
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List of Mayflower Passengers by William Bradford
List of Mayflower Passengers from William Bradford's 'Of Plymouth Plantation' Illustration from page 7 of "Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of...
![Cuneiform Synonyms List](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/3132.jpg?v=1700100426)
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Cuneiform Synonyms List
Occasionally, cuneiform text scribes encounter difficult or rare words. The list on this clay tablet explain such words. From the library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh (modern-day Ninawa Governorate, Iraq), northern Mesopotamia. Neo-Assyrian...
![Egyptian list of offerings](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/4684.jpg?v=1618678831)
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Egyptian list of offerings
There are 14 columns of hieroglyphic inscriptions on this limestone slab; they list offerings. The hieroglyphs on the slab edge read "revered before Anubis upon his mountain, he who is in the embalming-place". The slab dates back to the Old...