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This cylinder includes three columns of cuneiform inscriptions that record the reconstruction and restoration of the temple of Shamash, the sun God, at Larsa, by the last king of Babylon, Nabonidus. Probably from...

This clay document tells us how Nabonidus (the last king of Babylon) built and reconstructed the temple of Sin, the moon God, at Ur. It also mentions a prayer for the king and Beslshazzar, his son. From Ur, neo-Babylonian...

A stele depicting Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten (r. 1353-1336 BCE) and his family worshipping the Aten or sun disk.

Painting "Boadicea Haranguing the Britons" by John Opie (1761–1807). The painting is an 18th century imagining of how she may have looked like, which is the depicted style of dress is not representative of how ancient...

This is a concept of how a Briton woman warrior, such as Boudicca, may have looked like.

Unfinished model head of a statue of Nefertiti, 18th dynasty, 1351-1334 BCE. (Neues Museum, Berlin)

A bust of Egyptian queen Nefertiti ("The Beautiful One Has Come", c. 1370 to c. 1336 BCE), the wife of the pharaoh Akhenaten of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt. By the sculptor Thutmose and rediscovered in 1912. Neues Museum, Berlin.

The treaty of Kadesh was written in Akkadian language in 1269 BCE. It was a peace-treaty which was concluded between Ramesses II (the Egyptian pharaoh) and Hattusilis (king of Hittite). These two tablets were found in Boğazköy-Buyulkale...

Reign of King Nebuchadnezzar II, neo-Babylonian era, 605–562 BCE. Ancient Babylon (modern Babel governorate), Iraq.

The temple to Nabu at Borsippa was destroyed in 484 BCE during the suppression of a revolt against the Achaemenid king Xerxes. Modern Biris Namrud, Babil Governorate, Iraq.