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Refers to the land that lies between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in ancient times where empires such as Sumer, Akkad and Babylon flourished.
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Were people in the Neo-Assyrian or Achaemenid Empire aware of the empires before them?
The Babylonians and Assyrians had several versions of a king list, at least one of which enumerated the kings from the Old Babylonian period down to the Neo-Assyrian period. There is also a much older …
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Did Mesopotamia have coins to represent Gerahs & Minas?
If with Mesopotamia you mean the ancient civilisations in Babylonia and Assyria before the Persian conquest (that is: before 535 BC), then we need to say that there were no coins at all. …
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Why wasn't Akkadian translated into other more common languages?
Is there (if I may reformulate your question a bit) evidence for ancient translations of texts in cuneiform (Akkadian, Babylonian, Old Persian, Elamite) script into other writing systems? There is, bu …
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What is the historical name(s) for area between Syria and Mesopotamia?
Historically, Syria and Assyria are the same. “Syria” is a Greek version of “Assyria”. In ancient times “Syria” designated the whole of the Assyrian empire. The Christians in Iraq call themselves Sury …
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