Amorites
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The Amorites were an ancient Northwest Semitic-speaking Bronze Age people who emerged from western Mesopotamia. Initially appearing in Sumerian records c. 2500 BC, they expanded and ruled most of the
Cuneiform clay tablets from the Amorite Kingdom of Mari, 1st half of the 2nd millennium BC
Artifacts from Amorite Kingdom of Mari, first half of 2nd millennium BC
One of the Ramesses III prisoner tiles, which is speculated by some scholars to represent an Amorite man
Destruction of the Army of the Amorites by Gustave Doré
Babylon
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Babylon was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about 85 kilometres south of modern-day Baghdad. Babylon functioned as the mai
Amorites
…century BC. The Amorites established several prominent city-states in various locations, such as Isin, Kurda, Larsa, Mari, and Ebla, and later founded Babylon and the Old Babylonian Empire. They also founded the Fourteenth Dynasty of Egypt during the fragmented era of the Second Intermediate Period in the…
Ishtar Gate
Babylon in 1932
"Entry of Alexander into Babylon", a 1665 painting by Charles LeBrun, depicts Alexander the Great's uncontested entry into the city of Babylon, envisioned with pre-existing Hellenistic architecture.
Original tiles of the processional street. Ancient Babylon, Mesopotamia, Iraq.