The Ancient Near East, C. 3000-330 BC, Volume 2

Achaemenid Ahuramazda Anatolia Aramaean Aramaic archaeological army Artaxerxes Ashur Ashurbanipal Ashurbanipal's Ashurnasirpal Assyrian empire Assyrian king Babylon Babylonian Briant Bronze Cambyses campaign Canaanite Carchemish centres Chaldaean chapter chronicle conquest court cult Cyrus Darius David defeat divine documents dynasty earlier east Egypt Egyptian Elam Elamite Esarhaddon Euphrates evidence excavated frontier gods governor Greek groups Herodotus Hittite important Israel Israelite Jerusalem Judah Kalhu king of Assyria king's kingdom kingship land later Levant linked lord Lydia Marduk material Medes Mesopotamia military Nabonidus Nabopolassar Napatan Nebuchadnezzar Neo-Hittite Nineveh Nippur northern Old Testament palace Parpola period Persian king Philistines Phoenician Phrygian political Postgate probably problems provinces Psammetichus region reign revolt royal inscriptions ruler Sargon Sargon II satrap Saul's scholars sea-peoples Sennacherib settlement seventh century Shalmaneser Sippar soldiers sources stele story temple territory throne Tiglath-pileser Tiglath-pileser III tribes Ugarit Urartian Urartu Uruk Yahweh