Babylonia

Babylonia (; , ) was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area based on the city of Babylon in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq and parts of Syria). It emerged as an Akkadian-populated but Amorite-ruled state . During the reign of Hammurabi and afterwards, Babylonia was retrospectively called "the country of Akkad" ( in Akkadian), a deliberate archaism in reference to the previous glory of the Akkadian Empire. It was often involved in rivalry with the linguistically related state of Assyria in Upper Mesopotamia, and with Elam to the east. Babylonia briefly became the m

Babylonian code of law or conduct

A ziggurat (; Cuneiform: 𒅆𒂍𒉪, Akkadian: ', D-stem of ' 'to protrude, to build high', cognate with other Semitic languages like Hebrew zaqar (זָקַר) 'protrude') is a type of massive structure built in ancient Mesopotamia and Iran. It has the form of a terraced compound of successively receding stories or levels. Notable ziggurats include the Great Ziggurat of Ur near Nasiriyah, the Ziggurat of Aqar Quf near Baghdad, the no longer extant Etemenanki in Babylon, Chogha Zanbil in Khūzestān and Sialk. The Sumerians believed that the gods lived in the temple at the top of the ziggurats, so only pr

period in Jewish history during which a number of people from the ancient Kingdom of Judah were captives in Babylon

thumb|350px|The Chaldean tribes in Babylonia during the 1st millennium BC.

c. 1894 BC – c. 1595 BC dynasty of Babylonia

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Nabû-nāṣir (simplified in English as Nabonassar) was the king of Babylon from 747 to 734 BC. He deposed a foreign Chaldean usurper named Nabu-shuma-ishkun, bringing native rule back to Babylon after twenty-three years of Chaldean rule. His reign saw the beginning of a new era characterized by the systematic maintenance of chronologically precise historical records. Both the Babylonian Chronicle and the Ptolemaic Canon begin with his accession to the throne. He was contemporary with the Assyrian kings Aššur-nirarī V (755–745 BC) and Tiglath-Pileser III (745–727 BC), under the latter of who

thumb|300px|Reconstruction of the peribolos at Babylon, including the temple of Esagila, from The excavations at Babylon (1914)

psalm in Book of Psalms

Akitu or Akitum () () is a spring festival and New Year's celebration, held on the first day of the Assyrian and Babylonian Nisan in ancient Mesopotamia and in Assyrian communities around the world, to celebrate the sowing of barley. Akitu originates from the Sumerian spring New Year festival of Zagmuk.

religious practices of Babylonia

ancient tablets written in akkadian language

'''Al-Mada'in' (, ; Māḥozā''; ) was an ancient metropolis situated on the Tigris in what is now Iraq. It was located between the ancient royal centers of Ctesiphon and Seleucia, and was founded by the Sasanian Empire. The city's name was used by Arabs as a synonym for the Sasanian capital of Ctesiphon, in a tradition that continued after the Arab conquest of Iran.

mesopotamian writings, 23rd–6th century BC

ancient mythology

old Babylonian city

thumb|A map showing the generally defined area of the Fertile Crescent in red Panbabylonism (also known as Panbabylonianism) was the school of thought that considered the cultures and religions of the Middle East and civilization in general to be ultimately derived from Babylonian myths which in turn they viewed as being based on Babylonian astronomy, often in hidden ways.

Al-Kifl (; also known as Kifl) is a town in southeastern Iraq on the Euphrates River, between Najaf and Hillah. The population in and near the town is about 15,000. Al-Kifl is the location of al-Nukhailah Mosque, containing the tomb of Dhu al-Kifl who is believed to be the biblical prophet Ezekiel. A project to renovate the tomb and develop it as a tourist attraction has proven controversial. The town was once a significant Jewish pilgrimage site and home to a community of Iraqi Jews until the late 1940s.

tablets recording Babylonian history

Council that legalized the Christian Church in Sassanid Empire (410)

ancient stone monument

cuneiform inscription

Statue of the patron deity of the ancient city of Babylon

Rapiqum (also Rapiku and Rapiqu), ra-bi-qa-wiKI, was a city of the ancient Near East. The city was located in the north of Mesopotamia, probably on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River, in modern Iraq. It is firmly attested from early in the 2nd Millennium BC until early in the 1st Millennium BC.

subset of cuneiform law

Babylonian god Bel Marduk - God of war

thumb|300px|Tower of the Jade Emperor (玉皇阁 Yùhuánggé), central pavilion of a temple to the supreme godhead, in Guide, [[Qinghai. Jade Emperor shrines are frequently built on raised platforms, especially in western China.]] Sino-Babylonianism is the theory (now rejected by most scholars) that in the third millennium B.C., the civilization which existed in the Babylonian region provided the essential elements of material civilization and language to what is now China. Albert Terrien de Lacouperie (1845–1894) was the first theorist to hypothesize that a massive migration by Babylonians brought th

8th century BC Mesopotamian text

legendary account of the punishment and healing of the Babylonian king Nabonidus

babylonian chronicle