feared the wrath of the gods. To placate their anger, a hierarchy of priests celebrated elaborate ceremonies within the temple of each city, home-ground of the local deities. Sometimes a tall tower called a ziggurat was built next to the temple. The Ancient Sumerian Society and Language Within...
to later overthrow the Medes and put and end to their supremacy. Cyrus converted the city of Susa into the capital of the new state in 550 B.C. and decided to begin a policy of conquests of the neighboring territories.
Apadana Palace, the Achaemenes winter palace, it was built by the order of Darius the Great in ancient Susa for Shush Castle, the historical structure was built by French archaeological exploration and excavation Shush Museum, small collection of Susa ancient city Back to Shushtar Tizno tradition...
Walking through Susa Jinja Shrine, where the god Susanoo sleeps, we are greeted by a 1300 year-old giant cedar tree. Vol.14 Visiting the shrine of the god of sake brewing, Kusunokami. This shrine has appeared in ancient historical texts. ...
Xerxes advanced into Attica, where he captured and burned Athens. But the Athenians had evacuated the city by sea, and under Themistocles they defeated the Persian fleet at the Battle of Salamis. A year later, the Greeks, under the Spartan Pausanius, defeated the Persian army at Plataea....
•Uruk pottery(4000-3100 BCE), named after the Sumerian city of Uruk, coincided with the emergence of urban life in Mesopotamia, and later Sumeria. During this time, pottery became the predominant medium of Mesopotomian art: production became more specialised as potter's wheels became faster ...
of the incomplete projects from his father’s era, supervising the construction of the Gate of All Nations, the Palace of Darius, the Hall of a Hundred Columns, and the great meeting hall Apadana. He also reconstructed the Royal Road established by his father and built a palace at Susa. ...
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of its might, the ruins of military forts remain, constructed with great blocks of stone, located in the different regions dominated in the times of its maximum expansion. Here a tower from the fort constructed by Shalmaneser III as part of the defenses of the city of Nimrud can be seen...
city of Mari. Thanks to these conquests, the empire of Hammurabi reached beyond Mesopotamia, covering from the Mediterranean Sea to Susa (in the region of Elam) and from Kurdistan to the Persian Gulf, in the south. As we have said, it became one of the most flourishing empires of the ...