Who was Enlil? – Mesopotamia – West Asian gods
Who was Enlil? This is what one of the tablets that was found in the Assyrian king's library looks like. This one tells the story of the Flood. The Sumerian god [...]
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09, 2017
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09, 2017
Epic of Gilgamesh – Mesopotamian writing
Epic of Gilgamesh: Gilgamesh and his friend Enkidu fight the monster Humbaba, on an Assyrian cylinder seal from the 600s BC The real king Gilgamesh The Epic of Gilgamesh is [...]
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09, 2017
Who were the Sumerians? Mesopotamia – West Asian history
Sumerians - Head of a woman from Warka, about 3000 BC When did the Sumerians get started? About the same time as the first Pharaohs were coming to power in Egypt, around 3100 BC, [...]
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08, 2017
Noah’s Ark – Bible stories – Judaism
The rain falling on the drowning people/ Noah lets go a dove to see if the waters have gone down/ He sends out the dove again/He lets the animals off the [...]
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08, 2017
Tower of Babel – Bible stories
Breughel's medieval painting of the Tower of Babel From the Bible story: According to the Book of Genesis in the Bible, after the Flood people again began to get wicked. Noah's Flood [...]
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06, 2017
Egyptian geography and environment
Egyptian geography: a map showing the Sahara desert and the Nile river The Sahara Desert Egypt has a very special environment, which has played a very big part in Egyptian [...]