Back to Ancient History Sourcebook | Ancient History Sourcebook: A Collection of Contracts from Mesopotamia, c. 2300 - 428 BCE I. Sales and Purchases II. Rentals III. Labor Contracts IV. Co-Partnerships V. Loans and Mortgages VI. Bankruptcy VII. Power of Attorney VIII. Marriage IX. Divorce X. Adoption XI. Inheritance I. Sales and Purchases Contract for the Sale of a Slave, Reign of Rim-Sin, c.

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Babylonian and Egyptian mathematics We now have a more extensive coverage of Babylonian and Egyptian mathematics. Click on one of the links below Babylonian mathematics index Egyptian mathematics index JOC/EFR January 2001 The URL of this page is: School_of_Mathematics_and_Statistics University_of_St_Andrews, _Scotland http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.

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Cyrus the Great; A historical account; his life and aceivements, Learn about Cyrus's Multicultural Attidues. Visit Cyrus's resting place in Pasargadae and his Bass Relief in Sydney Australia ...

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Complete corpus of Old Persian texts with English translations.

Babylonian Mathematics 4 is the length and 5 the diagonal. What is the breadth It's size is not known. 4 times 4 is 16. 5 times 5 is 25. You take 16 from 25 and there remains 9. What times what shall I take in order to get 9 3 times 3 is 9. 3 is the breadth. Sounds like my Trigonometry class, except this teacher was holding class 3900 years ago in Mesopotamia, specifically the city of Harmal ...

Ian Lawton's Papers on Ancient Mesopotamia, covering the Pantheon of Gods, the Literary Texts, and a Refutation of the Theories of Zecharia Sitchin.

The Babylonian Collection, Sterling Memorial Library Return to Exhibition Home Page Scribal School-tablet with proverb, ca. 18th century B.C.E. Kudurru (boundary-stone), 12th century B.C.E., showing the healing goddess, Gula, literally the great one, and symbols of other deities. Babylonian cylinder commemorating Nebuchadnezzar II (604-562 B.C.E.), the king who destroyed the first Temple in ...

Back to Ancient History Sourcebook | Ancient History Sourcebook: Greek Reports of Babylonia, Chaldea, and Assyria Herodotus: from The History of the Persian Wars, c. 430 BCE Herodotus: From The History of the Persian Wars, c. 430 BCE I.178: Assyria possesses a vast number of great cities, whereof the most renowned and strongest at this time was Babylon, where, after the fall of Nineveh, the seat ...

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Examines Mesopotamian flood traditions, Woolley's discovery of Flood Mud beneath ancient Ur, the Nippur Tablet, Gilgamesh Epic, and Bible's Genesis story of Noah and the Great Deluge.