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Hammurabi (c. 1810 BC-c. 1750 BC) was the sixth king of the First Babylonian Dynasty. The Code of Hammurabi contains 282 laws and was written in Akkadian. It prescribed specific penalties for every crime and is among the earliest codes to establish the presumption of innocence. The code also dealt with the economic life of ancient Babylonians, like the duties and rights of tenant farmers. 

In 1875, Ann Coleson's narrative was published of her captivity by the Sioux Indians in the wilderness of Minnesota, and her escape through the wilds back to civilization....

The Papyrus of Ani is a papyrus manuscript created c. 1250 BCE, in the 19th dynasty of the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt. The introduction by E.A. Wallis Budge is followed by a transliteration of the sounds of the Egyptian hieroglyphs, a word-for-word translation, and a smooth translation. 

Myths of Babylonia and Assyria takes a look at the ancient history and mythology of Mesopotamia. The audiobook examines the myths and legends of Babylonia and Assyria, and how these ancient tales reflect the beliefs and development of early civilization. The audiobook begins with the early Sumerian Age and concludes 30 centuries later with the Greek Empire.

"The Great Hymn to the Aten" is the longest of a number of hymn-poems written to the sun-disk deity Aten. Composed in the middle of the 14th century BC, it is attributed to Pharaoh Akhenaten, who radically changed traditional forms of Egyptian religion by replacing them with Atenism. According to the Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson, it is one of the most significant and splendid pieces of poetry to survive from the pre-Homeric world. 

Sound interesting? The historians thinks so too! Listen to The Dynastic Tablets and Chronicles of the Babylonians and learn about ancient history.

Euphrates to the land of the Hittites and the Upper Sea toward the west.

King Menuas of Urartu was a great warrior and builder. Urartu centred on the district of Lake Van in Anatolia, but also extended over the Transcaucasian regions of modern Russia and into northwestern Iran in the ninth-sixth centuries BCE. This inscription deals with cities and territories conquered by Menuas.

Sin-Gashid's Endowment of the Temple Ê-Ana is an inscription of 27 lines in the Akkadian language, of an endowment made by an early Mesopotamian king to the great temple at Erech called Ê-ana (House of Heaven).  

Julius (Jules) Oppert (1825-1905) was a French-German Assyriologist. Oppert was a voluminous writer upon Assyrian mythology and jurisprudence. This text examines legal cases from ancient Mesopotamian clay tablets.

These tablets belonged to the library of Assurbanipal at Nineveh, but the colophon says that they had been copied from older texts which came from the library of Cutha in Babylonia. This is Sayce’s second and improved translation of the inscription. 

The oldest Hebrew inscription yet discovered (in 1880) is the one engraved on the wall of the subterranean channel which carries the water of the Virgin's Spring at Jerusalem into the Pool of Siloam. The inscription’s alphabet is the ancient version used by the prophets before the Exile. 

This ancient lamentation refers to the times of the depredations of the Guti invaders that caused the collapse of the Akkadian Empire towards the end of the third millennium BCE. The text may have been composed after the Elamites carried away the statue of the goddess Nana from the city of Erech (Uruk). It is written in Sumerian with a translation into Babylonian.

Tiglath-Pileser I was a king of Assyria during the Middle Assyrian period (1114-1076 BC). He expanded Assyrian rule into Anatolia and Syria, and to the shores of the Mediterranean. From this inscription, it is clear that cultivated a fear of himself in his subjects and in his enemies alike.

The Seven Tablets of Creation is Leonard W. King's translation of the Babylonian creation myth. There is a resemblance to the Hebrew narrative of Genesis, which broadened the translation’s appeal to a large public. It also has the title, Enuma Elish, meaning "When on High".

A discussion of the inscriptions found at the ruins of the ancient Sumerian city of Shirpurla. Besides Sumerian, there are also Semitic, Kassite, and Elamite inscriptions at this important archaeological site.

The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia (1903) consists of Egyptian religion in part one, including discussions of the sun god, the ennead, Osiris, and the journey of the soul. Part two deals with animism and the beliefs of Sumeria, Babylonia, and Assyria. The book comprises the Gifford Lectures on the Ancient Egyptian and Babylonian Conception of the Divine. 

This is one of the few books on the mysterious Philistines. They were most likely emigrants from Mycenaean Greece and part of the Sea People migrations of the late Bronze Age. The Philistines occupied an area on the Mediterranean coast approximately corresponding to the current Gaza Strip and disappeared in the fifth century BCE.

George Smith (1840-1876) was an English archaeologist and Assyriologist who first discovered and translated the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the most ancient works of literature. The Babylonian account was similar to the biblical account of the Flood in Genesis. Smith discovered many more tablet fragments of the flood story, and published his work in "The Chaldean Account of Genesis".