Висячие сады «выселили» из Вавилона

Археолог Стефани Дэлли из Оксфордского университета представила свидетельства тому, что Висячие сады были построены на территории древней Ассирии. Об этом говорится в книге Дэлли «Тайна вавилонских Висячих садов» («The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon»), которая готовится к публикации. Обзор книги представляет The Guardian.

Результаты исследований Дэлли указывают на то, что одно из семи чудес света Древнего мира было построено в 7 веке до нашей эры в столице Ассирийского государства, Ниневии — в пятистах километрах от Вавилона. Сады, по мнению археолога, являлись частью дворцового комплекса, который соорудил царь Синахерриб.

The great Flood: the story from the Bible

The  'flood tablet' from 

the Epic of Gilhameš (British Museum)

The Great Flood: mythological story about a great destruction that once befell the earth. There are several variants; the Biblical version is the most famous. The possibility that there is a historical event behind the story (a local flood in southern Babylonia in the twenty-eighth century BCE) can not be excluded.

Introduction

The famous story about the Great Flood is best known from the Bible (Genesis 6-9). It has always been known that there were similar stories from Greece and Rome (like the ones by Apollodorus, Ovid, and Hyginus), but in the nineteenth century, several texts from ancient Iraq were added. The first discovery was Tablet XI of the Babylonian Epic of Gilgameš (in 1872), the second the Sumerian original, now called the Eridu Genesis (1914), and the third the Epic of Atrahasis (1956). It is now clear that the Biblical account stays close to a Babylonian model.

Bringing Babylon back from the dead

(CNN) -- Babylon was one of the glories of the ancient world, its walls and mythic hanging gardens listed among the Seven Wonders.

Founded about 4,000 years ago, the ancient city was the capital of 10 dynasties in Mesopotamia, considered one of the earliest cradles of civilization and the birthplace of writing and literature.

Archaeological crusade: US tries to save ancient treasures

TORONTO — The fictional archaeologist Indiana Jones has long enthralled movie audiences, taking on assorted villains in quests to find mythical treasures, with some limited help from the government.

Minus any bullwhips, the real-life U.S. State Department works with other federal departments in a journey to protect important archaeological sites and ancient treasures in the face of conflict, according to professional archaeologists Morag Kersel and Christina Luke in their new book "U.S. Cultural Diplomacy and Archaeology: Soft Power, Hard Heritage" (Routledge, 2012).

Sumerian & Babylonian (Akkadian) Languages & Cuneiform Script Writing Dictionary

Commemorating four active years of the ‘Mardukite Research Organization‘, for the first time ever, the ‘inner circle‘ guide to Sumerian & Babylonian (Akkadian) languages and cuneiform script that the Mardukite Office has kept private for internal use, is now available to the public from Joshua Free in “Secrets of Sumerian Language: The Archaic History & Development of Babylonian-Akkadian Tablet Writing (A Dictionary of Cuneiform Signs)“

“The word — ‘Sumerian’ — is actually Akkadian in origin. It does not pertain to a ‘location’ as much as it does a ‘language’. The ancient word for ‘language’ is ‘tongue.’ Being the first written language, the ancient Sumerians simply referred to their own as a ‘native tongue‘ (emegir). The ‘signs’ and words used to represent the concept or idea of ‘tongue‘ can be used to denote ‘language’ or the literal part of the body (‘tongue‘).