Hammurabi

15 09, 2017

What’s the Enuma Elish? West Asian religion

By |2019-09-04T07:29:46-07:00September 15th, 2017|West Asia|Comments Off on What’s the Enuma Elish? West Asian religion

Clay tablets with cuneiform writing of the Enuma Elish Story of Creation By about the time of Hammurabi, about 1700 BC, people in the Babylonian Empire were beginning to write down this story about [...]

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14 09, 2017

Hammurabi of Babylon – Mesopotamia – West Asian history

By |2019-09-05T05:40:09-07:00September 14th, 2017|West Asia|Comments Off on Hammurabi of Babylon – Mesopotamia – West Asian history

Code of Hammurabi (1700s BC) - Hammurabi of Babylon The Babylonian Empire About 1700 BC, there was a new king in Babylon. He pulled all the scattered cities of Mesopotamia back together [...]

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