Significant Mesopotamian Finds

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Significant Mesopotamian finds from the Second and First Millennia B.C.

Cuneiform Texts

Mesopotamian Creation Texts & the Biblical Creation

Enuma elish
Atrahasis
The Eridu Genesis

Mesopotamian Flood Stories & the Biblical Flood

The Sumerian King List
The Eridu Genesis
Ziusudra
Atrahasis
The Epic of Gilgamesh

The Neo-Assyrian Period, 9th-7th cent. BC (884-627 BC)

Shalmaneser III (859-825 BC)
Tiglath-Peliser III (745-727 BC)
Sargon II (722-701 BC)
Sennacherib (704-681 BC)

The Babylonian Period, 7th-6th cent. BC (627-539 BC)

Early Neo-Babylonian Period

Merodach-Baladan II (721-710 BC)

Neo-Babylonian & Late Neo-Babylonian Periods

Nebuchadnezzar II (605-562 BC)
Evil-Merodach/Amel-Marduk (561-560 BC)
Belshazzar


The Persian Period, 6th-5th cent. BC (539-331 BC)

Median Empire
Persian Empire
Chronological Chart
Cyrus II (the Great)
Xerxes I (biblical Ahasuerus)
Artaxerxes II

Ezra
Nehemiah
Esther



Reference Resources
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