Ur-Nammu

Ur-Nammu

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Ur-Nammu (or Ur-Namma, Ur-Engur, ca. 2112-2095 BC) founded the Sumerian 3rd dynasty of Ur, in southern Mesopotamia, following several centuries of...
Naram-Sin

Naram-Sin

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Naram-Sin (2255 BC - 2219 BC short chronology) was the third successor and grandson of Sargon of Akkad; under Naram-Sin the Akkadian Empire reached...

Ibbi-Sin

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Ibbi-Sin, son of Shu-Sin, was king of Sumer and Akkad and last king of the Ur III dynasty, and reigned circa 2028 BC-2004 BC. During his reign, the...

Entemena

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Entemena, son of En-anna-tum I, reestablished Lagash as a power in Sumer. He defeated Illi of Umma, with the aid of Lugal-kinishe-dudu of Uruk,...

Enmebaragesi

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Enmebaragesi ("Me-Baragesi", "En-Men-Barage-Si", "Enmebaragisi", fl. ca. 2600 BC), according to the Sumerian king list, was a king of Kish who...

Samsu-Iluna

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Samsu-Iluna (Samsuiluna), was the King of Babylon, who reigned from 1749 BC to 1712 BC. He was son of Hammurabi. During the reign of Samsu-Iluna...
Shamash-Shum-Ukin

Shamash-Shum-Ukin

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Shamash-shum-ukin was king of Babylon from 668-648 BC. He was the second son of the Assyrian King Esarhaddon. His elder brother, crown prince...

Enshakushanna

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Enshakushanna (or En-Shakansha-Ana, Enukduanna) was a king of Uruk sometime in the later 3rd millennium BC who is named on the Sumerian king list,...

Nergal-Ushezib

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Nergal-ushezib, originally Shuzub, was a Babylonian nobleman who was installed as King of Babylon by the Elamites in 694 BC, after their capture of...
Darius II of Persia II of Persia

Darius II of Persia II of Persia

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Darius II, originally called Ochus and often surnamed Nothus, was king of the Persian Empire from 423 BC to 404 BC. Artaxerxes I, who died shortly...