- male
- Asharid-apal-Ekur was King of Assyria from 1076 to 1074 BC. He succeeded his father, Tiglath-Pileser I, and was succeeded by a brother,...
- male
- Shabaka (or "Shabaka Neferkare", 'Beautiful is the Soul of Re') was a Kushite pharaoh of the Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt, between (721 BC -...
- male
- 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...
- female
- Samsi (also known as Shamsi) was a Midianite queen who fought the Assyrian king Tiglath-Pileser III. She was eventually defeated and forced to pay...
- male
- Publilius (less correctly Publius) Syrus, a Latin writer of maxims, flourished in the 1st century BC. He was an Assyrian who was brought as a slave...
- male
- Untash-Napirisha was king of Elam from about 1275 to 1240 BC. He was the son of the previous king, Khumban-Numena. His original name was...
- male
- Burna-Buriash, "Burna-Buriaš" or "Burra-Buriaš," was the name of at least two kings of Babylon in the Kassite Dynasty (c. 1150–1500 BC). The most...
- male, deceased (1952)
- Bedřich Hrozný a German expedition found the archives of the Hittite kings in cuneiform, but in an unknown language. In 1917, Hrozný published a des...
- male, deceased (1976)
- Ernest Charles Wallcousins (1883-1976), was a painter and illustrator for Carlton Illustrators, London. He illustrated "myths of Babylonia and...
- female
- Shammuramat or Sammur-amat was Queen of Assyria 811 BC-808 BC. The widow of King Shamshi-Adad V reigned for three years on the throne of Assyria....
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