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The Ancient Civilization of the Babylonians: A Story of Politics and Power
A survey of Babylonian civilization: its society, economy, language and religion, and the two periods, Old and Neo-Babylonian, when Babylon's kings ruled widely.
Babylon and Assyria
Babylonian Empire
Government, omens, astronomy and the fall of Babylonia.
The Ancient Babylonian Astronomy: A Legacy of Science and Culture
How Babylonian scholars watched the sky: the Astronomical Diaries, planetary records, eclipse cycles and the mathematical methods that fed later Greek astronomy.
The Ancient Babylonians: A Legacy of Law and Governance
How Babylonian kings ran their states: provincial officials, taxes and service duties, canal and land management, written contracts and local courts.
The Ancient Babylonians: A Story of Politics and Prophecy
How omen series, astrologer-advisers and prophecy-style texts shaped Babylonian politics, and how the exile of the Judeans fits into the picture.
The Ancient Babylonians: The Decline of a Great Empire
Why the Neo-Babylonian empire fell in 539 BCE: the reign of Nabonidus, tension with the priesthood, and Cyrus's Persian conquest, with the sources weighed.
The Rise and Fall of the Babylonian Empire
A compact dated timeline of Babylonian history from Hammurabi's dynasty through the Kassite and Neo-Babylonian periods to Cyrus in 539 BCE, with notes on dating.
The Rise of the Babylonian Empire: A City of Wonder
How Amorite chiefs founded the First Dynasty of Babylon around 1894 BCE and turned a minor Euphrates town into the capital of a regional kingdom.
The Rise of the Babylonian Empire: A Tale of Conquest
The wars that made Babylonia: Hammurabi's defeat of Larsa and Mari, and Nebuchadnezzar II's campaigns in the Levant ending in the sack of Jerusalem in 586 BCE.
The Rise of the Babylonians: A Story of Power and Politics
The Chaldean dynasty of Nabopolassar: his alliance with the Medes, the fall of Assyria, and the court politics of Nebuchadnezzar II's short-lived successors.
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