Category Archives: Wealth of Egypt

Here is a more authentic rendition of the Late Bronze Age hymn to Nikkal I mentioned last May. (H/T: Jim West) Share this: Digg this postRecommend on FacebookTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this postTell a friend

“And so we came to Rome” (Acts 28:14). In this final installment we’ll survey the calendars of ancient Rome and environs. Share this: Digg this postRecommend on FacebookTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this postTell a friend

The ancient Greek city-states were at the best of times a confederation of equal yet independent partners and were usually an amalgamation of statelets distrustful if not openly hostile to each other. It should not be surprising, therefore, that each … Continue reading →

Continuing our survey of ancient calendars, we next turn to Iran. Here we need to discuss both the early non-Indo-European inhabitants of ancient Elam, which were closely associated with southern Mesopotamia, and the later Indo-European civilization of the Achaemenid Persians. … Continue reading →

In the Middle and Late Bronze Age the Anatolian peninsula was home to the Hittite Empire and several other states (Kizzuwatna, Lukka-land, Arzawa, etc.). The Assyrians also maintained strong commercial ties with the region early in their history. Although very … Continue reading →

The imperialistic expansion of the Assyrians and, later, the Babylonians in the first millennium introduced the Babylonian calendar throughout Syria. Before this time, a number of local Bronze-age calendars existed. Below the fold is a brief survey of some of … Continue reading →