Ninurta-Tukulti-Ashur

Ninurta-Tukulti-Ashur

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Ninurta-tukulti-Ashur was briefly King of Assyria in 1133 BC. He succeeded his father, the long-reigning Ashur-dan I, but the throne was very...

Abba Bar Abba

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Abba bar Abba (father of Samuel) was a Jewish Talmudist who lived in Babylonia, known as an amora of the 2nd and 3rd centuries, distinguished for...
E. Wallcousins

E. Wallcousins

male, deceased (1976)
Ernest Charles Wallcousins (1883-1976), was a painter and illustrator for Carlton Illustrators, London. He illustrated "myths of Babylonia and...

Epigenes

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Epigenes ("Έπιγένης") of Byzantium was a Greek astrologer. He seems to have been strong supporter of astrology, which, though derided by many Gre...

Cleostratus

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Cleostratus (ca. 520 BC; possibly 548 BC to 432 BC) was an astronomer of ancient Greece. He was a native of Tenedos, and the Chaldean astronomer...
Franz Xaver Kugler

Franz Xaver Kugler

male, deceased (1991)
Franz Xaver Kugler was a chemist, mathematician, Assyriologist, and Jesuit priest. He earned a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1885, and the following year...

Joseph ben Gorion

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Joseph ben Gorion (in Hebrew, "Yosef ben Gorion") was a medieval Jewish historian best known as the author of the "Sefer Yosippon", a history of...

Molon

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Molon (in Greek Moλων; died in 220 BC) was a general of the Seleucid king Antiochus the Great (223-187 BC). He held the satrapy of Media at the acc...
J. J. Benjamin

J. J. Benjamin

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J. J. Benjamin was a Romanian-Jewish historian. He travelled extensively in the Middle East, making copious notes of his observations of the...

Diogenes The Stoic

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Diogenes the Stoic, also known as Diogenes of Babylon or Diogenes the Babylonian, was a Stoic philosopher. Born in Seleucia on the Tigris in...