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		ANE Treaties and Legal Contracts ^Votes:0 Treaties and Legal Contracts from the Ancient Near East Old Babylonian contract sealed with seven seals ( ANEP #239) Marriage and Divorce Documents from the Ancient Near East 21st c. BC: New Sumerian divorce settlement Old Assyrian divorce document 19th c. BC: Old Assyrian marriage contract 15th c. BC: Abrogation of a marriage agreement Ugaritic: Manumission and Marriage contract 5th c. BC: Aramaic Papyri from Elephantine: Mibtahiah's marriage contracts 5th c. BC: Aramaic Papyri from Elephantine: Manumission and marriage of a female slave Ancient Near Eastern Treaties and Contracts Assyrian-Hittite treaty Last modified 10/2/95 prepared by Alan Humm humm@ccat.sas.upenn.edu Read More Go to Site


		Canaanite/Ugaritic Mythology FAQ, ver. 1.2 ^Votes:0 Canaanite/Ugaritic Mythology FAQ, ver. 1.2 by Christopher B. Siren cbsiren at alum dot mit dot edu based on John C. Gibson's Canaanite Mythology and S. H. Hooke's Middle Eastern Mythology Last modified: May 25th 1998: Corrected several spelling errors. May 25th 1996: Added an entry on Molech. March 30th 1996: Fixed a couple of Lucian typos, added a biblical link. March 11, 1996: added some links to Shawn Knight's "Egyptian Mythology FAQ" February 12, 1996: Included more extra-Ugaritic information. prior to February 12: added link to Gwen Saylor's commentary on this FAQ. Contents: I. Who do we mean by 'Canaanites'? II. What Deities did they worship? A. Primarily beneficent and non-hostile gods B. Chaos gods, death gods, and cthonic gods. C. Demigods and heroes. III. What about their cosmolo Read More Go to Site

		cuneiform ^Votes:0 Cuneiform Writing First Assignment The Book Pre-Computer Writing Devices Scrolls & Codex Cuneiform Writing Printing Press The Age of Electronic Writing Alphabets Illuminated Manuscript Cave Paintings Hieroglyphics Rosetta Stone Introduction Connections Email me! Cuneiform was the writing system in ancient Mesopotamia. The writing was three-dimensional marks created by pushing a stylus into wet clay before it hardened. Strokes used in cuneiform are thicker at the top and thinner at the bottom of the symbol. Pictograms were the basis of cuneiform writing, but in time cuneiform became abstract representations of the pictograms. (See Figure 1) Cuneiform differs from our own alphabet, although both are abstract representations. Our own alphabet is only a representation of sounds. The cuneiform Read More Go to Site

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		Middle East Civilizations ^Votes:0 While Egyptian civilization was developing in northeastern Africa, other civilizations were evolving in nearby southeastern Asia, chiefly in the Fertile Crescent . This region was named the Fertile Crescent because of its rich soil and half-moon shape. The Fertile Crescent was divided into 1) the eastern portion, consisting of the Tigris and Euphrates river valleys, called Mesopotamia (land between the the rivers), and 2) the western, or Mediterranean, portion Geographic Factors Influencing the Fertile Crescent 1. The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. The waters of these rivers enriched the land in Mesopotamia, thereby encouraging nomads to settle and farm. As in Egypt, the need for dikes to control floods and for canals to irrigate farms led to the establishment of governments. 2. Mediterranea Read More Go to Site

		ODYSSEY/NearEast ^Votes:0 Have you ever heard the ancient Near East called "The Cradle of Civilization?" What does that mean? Let's begin by defining a "civilization." What practices or characteristics define a civilization? Click on the objects below to explore some of these characteristics...... The development of cities, writing, and written law code, and more, happened first in the part of the world we call the ancient Near East. So, we sometimes think of it as the birthplace of western civilization. The ancient Near East was a region of great diversity. It stretched from the eastern shore of the Mediterranean to the eastern border of present day Iran, but it was never one big country. To see what we mean, check out the map . The people living here were from different cultural groups, for example the Sumerians, Read More Go to Site

		PETRA - A BRIEF HISTORY AND SOME PHOTOGRAPHS ^Votes:0 (This is digitiazed material from a pamphlet bought at Antoine's Bookstore, Rue Hamra, Beirut in 1995. The pamphlet was published in Amman in 1973 as a tourist guide. The photographs may have been used in previous brochures some years earlier.) PETRA - A BRIEF HISTORY AND SOME PHOTOGRAPHS The Nabateaean Rosered City A brief history of Petra Some photographs Jordan Distribution Agency Amman - Tel. 30191/30192 1973 al@mashriq 960215/960215 Read More Go to Site

		The Assyro-Babylonian Mythology FAQ ^Votes:0 The Assyro-Babylonian Mythology FAQ version 1.9html by Christopher B. Siren (Nov. 1994) cbsiren at alum dot mit dot edu last revised (October, 2003) changes since last revision: October 2003: added the Biblical parallels section (in progress) and some more citations August 1999: added clarifying remark to Bahamut answer. October 1995: lengthened Bahamut answer; added a couple external links; made changes for move to UNH. The web version at home.comcast.net/~chris.s/assyrbabyl-faq.html is the most up to date, however the last copy of this FAQ posted to Usenet should also be available via anonymous ftp at: rtfm.mit.edu at /pub/usenet/news.answers/assyrbabyl-faq I. Overview (including regional history) II. So these are just like the Sumerian deities right? III. Who were the gods and heroes of Read More Go to Site

		The Hebrews to 1000 BCE ^Votes:0 MacroHistory PREHISTORY TO YESTERDAY home \| ancient world \| Hebrews and Assyrians The Hebrews to 1000 BCE Yahweh staying the hand of Abraham, painted by Rembrandt Ramses II and three slaves. Click for details Battle of Gilboa The source that introduces us to people called Hebrews is the Book of Genesis, of the Five Books of Moses, or the Old Testament, Genesis 14:13 describing a man called Abraham as a Hebrew. Genesis describes Abraham as the son Terah and the brother of Nahor and Haran, a family that dwelled at Ur , in the land of the Chaldeans. According to Genesis, Terah took his family to Haran , where he died. And from Haran, Abraham migrated with his family into Canaan . Some believe this was toward the end of the 2000s BCE, long before the Chaldeans established themselves in Sumer. Read More Go to Site

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