Glimpses of Elamite Empire The name Elam was given to the region by others– the Akkadians and Sumerians of Mesopotamia–– and is thought to be their version of what the Elamites called themselves– ...

The Zagros are also rich in history, having been inhabited since ancient times by various civilizations, including the Elamites and the Persians. Iran’s mountain ranges act as natural climate ...

Sumerian cities had roads, buildings, and houses made of clay or bricks, and these were organized in a labyrinthine layout. Sumerians, as well as Babylonians, Elamites, Akkadians, and Assyrians, built ...

"Table of Nations" redirects here. For a list of countries, see list of sovereign states. On the family pedigrees contained in the biblical pericope of Noah, Saadia Gaon (882‒942) wrote: The ...

While the attacking Assyrian soldiers scaled the ladder leading to the top of a battlement defended by Elamite archers, the Elamites plunged to their deaths, their corpses floating in the moat ...

5000 years ago the ancient Elamites established a glorious civilization that lasted about three millennia They created marvelous works in architecture and craftsmanship These works of art depict ...

Based on distinctive costumes and presents that are depicted in the procession, scholars have identified Bactrians with a two-humped camel, Ionians bearing cloth, Elamites offering daggers ...

These ruins of the city of Babylon in Iraq date to the Neo-Babylonian Empire (626–539 B.C.). A 22-inch-high basalt stela depicting Babylon’s king Nabonidus (r. 556–539 B.C.) shows him ...

16 ``For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. Ezra 1:1-11 1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, ...