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King Menuas of Urartu was a great warrior and builder. Urartu centred on the district of Lake Van in Anatolia, but also extended over the Transcaucasian regions of modern Russia and into northwestern Iran in the ninth-sixth centuries BCE. This inscription deals with cities and territories conquered by Menuas.

These tablets belonged to the library of Assurbanipal at Nineveh, but the colophon says that they had been copied from older texts which came from the library of Cutha in Babylonia. This is Sayce’s second and improved translation of the inscription.

The oldest Hebrew inscription yet discovered (in 1880) is the one engraved on the wall of the subterranean channel which carries the water of the Virgin's Spring at Jerusalem into the Pool of Siloam. The inscription’s alphabet is the ancient version used by the prophets before the Exile.

Julius (Jules) Oppert (1825-1905) was a French-German Assyriologist. Oppert was a voluminous writer upon Assyrian mythology and jurisprudence. This text examines legal cases from ancient Mesopotamian clay tablets.

This ancient lamentation refers to the times of the depredations of the Guti invaders that caused the collapse of the Akkadian Empire towards the end of the third millennium BCE. The text may have been composed after the Elamites carried away the statue of the goddess Nana from the city of Erech (Uruk). It is written in Sumerian with a translation into Babylonian.

Tiglath-Pileser I was a king of Assyria during the Middle Assyrian period (1114-1076 BC). He expanded Assyrian rule into Anatolia and Syria, and to the shores of the Mediterranean. From this inscription, it is clear that cultivated a fear of himself in his subjects and in his enemies alike.

A discussion of the inscriptions found at the ruins of the ancient Sumerian city of Shirpurla. Besides Sumerian, there are also Semitic, Kassite, and Elamite inscriptions at this important archaeological site.

The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia (1903) consists of Egyptian religion in part one, including discussions of the sun god, the ennead, Osiris, and the journey of the soul. Part two deals with animism and the beliefs of Sumeria, Babylonia, and Assyria. The book comprises the Gifford Lectures on the Ancient Egyptian and Babylonian Conception of the Divine.

This is one of the few books on the mysterious Philistines. They were most likely emigrants from Mycenaean Greece and part of the Sea People migrations of the late Bronze Age. The Philistines occupied an area on the Mediterranean coast approximately corresponding to the current Gaza Strip and disappeared in the fifth century BCE.

More and more people are choosing to sell or sublet their homes, buy an RV, and live as full-time explorers! The truth is that doing this is not as crazy as it sounds! It can actually be a practical, budget-friendly option that can help you satisfy your wanderlust and discover some amazing things about yourself and the world around you. As with any major life change, transitioning into full-time RV living takes plenty of preparation and planning. Lucky for you, this audiobook is a crash course in full-time RV living.

Mindfulness truly is the key to self-awareness, inner peace, and genuine happiness. For those who seek to detach themselves from the mundane existence of an autopilot life and begin truly experiencing all that the world has to offer, mindfulness is a wonderful practice. Everyone can benefit from integrating mindfulness into their lives. Mindfulness is a very practical tool and has incredibly tangible effects. Cultivating a mindfulness practice is a powerful way to enhance your life, encourage peace, and experience happiness.

If I only had one thing to tell anyone out there who is either new to the job market or is graduating, that would be: "Jobs suck! Well, at least the old-fashioned version of a job where you have to do something you don't really like from 9-5...." I like calling this the 'sell your time' personal business model where you literally exchange your time for money. In other words, you sell your time to someone and they pay you for it. That's not right. If you've been there, and actually experienced what I'm talking about, you'll know that this personal business model actually sucks.

The Law of Expectation is one of the most fundamental yet most overlooked laws of the Universe. When used with pure intention, it can supercharge your manifesting powers and help you create your best life. Unfortunately, many teachings about this law are incomplete or not fully adapted to modern times. Some operate from a fear-based superstitious, one-size-fits-all mindset.

It’s time to release doubt, fear, resentment, and frustration…and get your desires fulfilled with joy and ease! In this book, modern spirituality and manifestation author Elena G. Rivers shares intuitive divine downloads to supercharge your manifesting journey. These timeless spiritual teachings are the key to ego-free, heart-based manifesting to help you create the life you want. Anyone can apply them, and their simplicity is what helps people embrace the power of stress-free, joyful, love-based manifesting.