Mesopotamian Clothing – Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages

Judaism and Christianity Menu Stories from the Hebrew Scriptures (a.k.a. Old Testament) Sponsored link. Overview: We hope to expand this section to include most of the main stories in the Hebrew Scriptures.

Noah’s ark and the flood Points of similarity between the Babylonian and Noachian flood stories. Sponsored link. Comparing the stories. The Chaldean Flood Tablets from the city of Ur in what is now Southern Iraq contain a story that describes how the Bablylonian god Enlil had been bothered by the incessant noise generated by humans.

Eunuchs In the OT, Part 2, Castration in Ancient Assyria, Babylonia, and Persia by Bruce L. Gerig

Babylonian law is a subset of cuneiform law that has received particular study, owing to the singular extent of the associated archaeological material that has been found for it.

Godchecker guide to ISHTAR (also known as Istar): Sky Goddess of Sex, Fertility, Love — and War. Ishtar is the Mesopotamian Goddess of War and comes from the mythology of …

Sumerian and Babylonian mathematics was based on a sexegesimal, or base 60, numeric system, which could be counted physically using the twelve knuckles on one hand the five fingers on the other hand.

Question: “Who was Ishtar, and is there any connection between Ishtar and Easter?” Answer: Ishtar was an ancient Mesopotamian goddess of war, fertility, and sex. She is featured in the Epic of Gilgamesh, and the “Ishtar Gate” was part of Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylon. Her worship involved

BECK index Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, and Persian Empires. by Sanderson Beck. Assyrian Empire 967-664 BC Assyrian Empire 664-609 BC Neo-Babylonian Empire

The English Babylon comes from Greek Babylṓn (Βαβυλών), a transliteration of the Akkadian Bābilim. [not in citation given]Archibald Sayce, writing in the 1870s, considered “Bab-ilu” or “Bab-ili” to be the translation of an earlier Sumerian (formerly thought to be in the obsolete “Turanian” language-family) name “Ca-dimirra”, meaning