• Thumbnail for Seleucus I Nicator
    Seleucus I Nicator (/sɪˈluːkəs/; Greek: Σέλευκος Νικάτωρ, Séleukos Nikátōr, "Seleucus the Victorious"; c. 358 BC – 281 BC) was a Macedonian Greek general...
    62 KB (7,899 words) - 12:17, 14 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Darius the Great
    Darius I (Old Persian: 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎢𐏁 Dārayavaʰuš; c. 550 – 486 BCE), commonly known as Darius the Great, was the third King of Kings of the Achaemenid...
    64 KB (7,053 words) - 10:11, 13 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nebuchadnezzar I
    Nebuchadnezzar I (/ˌnɛbjʊkədˈnɛzər/ NEB-yuu-kəd-NEZ-ər; Babylonian: mdNabû-kudurrī-úṣur (AN-AG-ŠA-DU-ŠIŠ) or mdNábû-ku-dúr-uṣur, meaning "Nabû, protect...
    14 KB (1,802 words) - 15:28, 31 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ahmose I
    Ahmose I (Amosis, Aahmes; meaning "Iah (the Moon) is born") was a pharaoh and founder of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt in the New Kingdom of Egypt,...
    55 KB (6,643 words) - 18:44, 13 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Seti I
    Menmaatre Seti I (or Sethos I in Greek) was the second pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt during the New Kingdom period, ruling c. 1294 or 1290...
    31 KB (3,934 words) - 12:27, 10 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mitanni
    well before the time of Thutmose I, dating actually to the time of the Hittite sovereigns Hattusili I and Mursili I. Hurrians are mentioned in the private...
    87 KB (11,083 words) - 06:09, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Psamtik I
    marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. Wahibre Psamtik I (Ancient Egyptian: Wꜣḥ-jb-Rꜥ Psmṯk) was the first pharaoh of the Twenty-sixth...
    29 KB (2,848 words) - 16:21, 8 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Susa
    1163/9789004293915_004, ISBN 9789004293915 Marest-Caffey, Laure (2016). "Seleukos I's Victory Coinage of Susa Revisited: A Die Study and Commentary". American...
    68 KB (8,021 words) - 16:34, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Achaemenid Empire
    genealogy of the Achaemenids) the kings of Anshan were Teispes, Cyrus I, Cambyses I and Cyrus II, also known as Cyrus the Great, who founded the empire...
    170 KB (17,330 words) - 13:45, 15 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of kings of Babylon
    Imagery as a Multicultural Expression of Royal and Divine Power Under Seleukos I Nikator". In Iossif, Panagiotis P.; Chankowski, Andrzej S.; Lorber, Catharine...
    139 KB (10,567 words) - 22:17, 30 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Antiochus I Soter
    Antiochus I Soter (‹See Tfd›Greek: Ἀντίοχος Σωτήρ, Antíochos Sōtér; "Antiochus the Savior"; c. 324/3 – 2 June 261 BC) was a Greek king of the Seleucid...
    17 KB (1,538 words) - 17:10, 26 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nebuchadnezzar II
    Possibly named after his grandfather of the same name, or after Nebuchadnezzar I (r. c. 1125–1104 BC), one of Babylon's greatest ancient warrior-kings, Nebuchadnezzar...
    90 KB (11,129 words) - 15:23, 31 October 2024
  • Dynasty of Ur. West is at top, north at right. Gold helmet of King of Ur I Meskalamdug, c. 2600–2500 BC Mesopotamian female deity seated on a chair,...
    68 KB (7,139 words) - 03:46, 22 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gilgamesh
    right thigh and throws it in Ishtar's face, saying, "If I could lay my hands on you, it is this I should do to you, and lash your entrails to your side...
    67 KB (6,783 words) - 20:21, 4 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kushan Empire
    Sakas, who moved further south. Archaeological structures are known in Takht-i Sangin, Surkh Kotal (a monumental temple), and in the palace of Khalchayan...
    115 KB (11,618 words) - 00:28, 10 November 2024
  • Jemdet Nasr period (3100–2900 BC): the 9 km city wall is built Uruk II Uruk I Anu/ White Temple ziggurat Unlike the Eanna district, the Anu district consists...
    77 KB (6,793 words) - 19:19, 14 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Solomon
    statutes that I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you and will give it to your servant. Yet for the sake of David your father I will not...
    94 KB (12,039 words) - 21:32, 4 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Middle Assyrian Empire
    the efforts of the kings Adad-nirari I (r. c. 1305–1274 BC), Shalmaneser I (r. c. 1273–1244 BC) and Tukulti-Ninurta I (r. c. 1243–1207 BC), under whom Assyria...
    98 KB (12,848 words) - 09:46, 12 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for David
    of Judea during the Iron I and Iron II periods has little room for historicizing readings of the stories of I-II Samuel and I Kings. Redford 1992, pp. 301–302:...
    114 KB (12,236 words) - 21:06, 14 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Villa of the Papyri
    identified as Archytas of Tarentum but now considered to be Pythagoras Seleukos I Nikator, unknown locale within the villa So-called Young Commander found...
    30 KB (3,313 words) - 23:40, 25 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Old Babylonian Empire
    (in order to attain) appropriate behavior, I established truth and justice as the declaration of the land, I enhanced the well-being of the people." It...
    23 KB (2,025 words) - 00:13, 13 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sumer
    Sumerians. Reliable historical records begin with Enmebaragesi (Early Dynastic I). The Sumerians progressively lost control to Semitic states from the northwest...
    110 KB (12,492 words) - 15:44, 13 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ptolemaic dynasty
    Ptolemaioi), also known as the Lagid dynasty (Λαγίδαι, Lagidai; after Ptolemy I's father, Lagus), was a Macedonian Greek royal house which ruled the Ptolemaic...
    33 KB (2,190 words) - 23:09, 18 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sargon of Akkad
    "The black-headed peoples I ruled, I governed; mighty mountains with axes of bronze I destroyed. I ascended the upper mountains; I burst through the lower...
    54 KB (6,268 words) - 19:30, 30 October 2024
  • Persian and other Eastern noblewomen at Susa just before coming to Opis. Seleukos I Nikator (306–281 BC), one of Alexander's Diadochi (Successors), founded...
    13 KB (1,790 words) - 13:24, 29 October 2024
  • the rise of Khosrow I. Following their victory over Peroz I, the Hepthalites became protectors and benefactors of his son Kavad I, as Balash, a brother...
    164 KB (16,638 words) - 01:47, 16 November 2024
  • individuals were characterized by an identical structure of DNA HVR I. The HVR I haplotype structure 16093C-16129A-16223T-16298C-16327T gives unambiguous...
    21 KB (2,047 words) - 18:27, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Narmer
    Chronology, I. Egypt to the end of the Twentieth Dynasty", in Edwards, I.E.S.; Gadd, C.J. (eds.), The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume I, Part I, Cambridge{{citation}}:...
    83 KB (10,382 words) - 19:15, 12 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thutmose III
    Ahmose I, Amenhotep I, Thutmose I, Thutmose II, Ramesses I, Seti I, Ramesses II and Ramesses IX, as well as the 21st Dynasty pharaohs Pinedjem I, Pinedjem...
    52 KB (6,517 words) - 20:42, 15 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tiglath-Pileser I
    Tiglath-Pileser I (/ˈtɪɡləθ paɪˈliːzər, -ˌlæθ, pɪ-/; from the Hebraic form of Middle Assyrian Akkadian: 𒆪𒋾𒀀𒂍𒈗𒊏, romanized: Tukultī-apil-Ešarra,...
    13 KB (1,513 words) - 06:08, 9 November 2024