Nabonassar

Nabonassar

male
assyria, Nabonasser, Nabo-n-assar, chronological, Nebo-adon-Assur, Anno Nabonassari
Nabonassar (also Nabonasser, Nabu-nasir, Nebo-adon-Assur or Nabo-n-assar) founded a kingdom in Babylon in 747 BC. This is now considered as the...
Simo Parpola

Simo Parpola

male
greek philosophy, university of helsinki, kabbalah, decimal, assyria, epic of gilgamesh
Simo Parpola is professor of Assyriology at the University of Helsinki located in Helsinki, Finland. He specialized in epigraphy of the Akkadian...

Nahum

male
Calendar of Saint, Old Testament saint, minor prophet, Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar, MICAH, liturgical calendar…assyria
Nahum (נחום) was a minor prophet whose prophecy is recorded in the Hebrew Bible. His book comes in chronological order between Micah and Haba...

Phraortes

male
assyria, Monarch of Persia, Medes, Fravartish
Phraortes or Fravartish, son of Deioces, was the second king of the Media and the founder of Median government. Like his father, Fravartish started...
Adad-Nirari II

Adad-Nirari II

male
king, assyria, assyrian, Neo-Assyrian period
Adad-nirari II is generally considered to be the first King of Assyria in the Neo-Assyrian period. He reigned from 912 to 891 BC. Because of the...
Adad-Nirari I

Adad-Nirari I

male
metropolitan museum of art, king, assyria, assyrian, mesopotamia, Mitanni…King of Assyria
Adad-nirari I was a king of Assyria. He is the earliest Assyrian king whose annals survive in any detail. Adad-nirari I was a king of substantial...
Hormuzd Rassam

Hormuzd Rassam

male, deceased (1910)
from Mosul, Iraqi Christian, epic of gilgamesh, Assyriology, Asia Minor, Assyriologist…assyria
Hormuzd Rassam (1826 - 16 September, 1910) was an Assyrian Assyriologist and traveller who made a number of important discoveries, including the...
James B. Pritchard

James B. Pritchard

male, deceased (1997)
Jib, el- Jib, archeologist, Gibeon Where the Sun Stood Still, babylon, biblical archaeology…assyria
James Bennett Pritchard was an American archeologist whose work explicated the interrelationships of the religions of ancient Israel, Canaan,...
Psammetichus I

Psammetichus I

male
Egyptian, labyrinth, assyria, nubia, cuneiform, Thebes
Psammetichus, or Psamtik I, was the first of three kings of the Saite, or Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt. His prenomen, Wahibre, means "Constant is...
Ashur-Uballit I

Ashur-Uballit I

male
Amarna letters author, Kassite, Burnaburiash II, Shuttarna II, Kurigalzu, Amarna letters…assyria
Ashur-uballit I , was king of the Assyrian empire (1365 BC-1330 BC or 1353 BC – 1318 BC). His reign marks Assyria's independence from the kingdom of...