Ancient History

Babylonia, and later Babylonian empire, was the former kingdom in Mesopotamia between 1900 BC or 1800 BC all the way to the fall in...

Hammurabi's son and successor Samsu-Iluna (around 1749 – 1712 BC) managed to maintain power over most of the territory which he had inherited, but...

Northern Greece – The main chain of the Pindus Mountains separated Northern Greece on two different climatic regions: Thessaly and Epirus. Thessaly was the largest...

Hammurabi’s Legal Code is a set of legal lists, which in a single legislative act Babylonian emperor Hammurabi issued in the 1792 – 1750...

Although weakened by Kassites invasion, Babylon was still an important economic center of Mesopotamia. Neo-Babylonian Empire belongs to the countries of the I Millennium...

Assyria occupies a small territory along the upper course of the river Tigris, the territory that stretched from the lower course of Zab in...

In the XV century BC, Assyria was under the rule of Mitanni emperors. Mitanni emperor Shaushtatar defeated the Assyrians and taken the city Ashur,...