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	Ancient Egypt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The main crops of Ancient Egypt were wheat and barley, as well as lettuce, beans, onions, figs, dates, grapes, melons and cucumbers.
		The legitimacy of the king was substantiated through myths in which the institution of kingship was established by the gods: The king was defined as the son of Osiris, and often represented as Horus in the shape of a human being.
		The most famous forms of Ancient Egyptian architecture were pyramids, used to house the bodies of deceased kings (and sometimes even queens) and everything he needed in the afterlife.
	i-cias.com /e.o/egypt_a.htm (1974 words)

	Ancient Egyptian Religion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Ancient Egyptian religion was to a great extent science, law, ethics and philosophy operating together inside the same framework.
		Towards the end of its period, Ancient Egyptian religion started to interact with religious beliefs from other parts of the Mediterranean Sea, and Egyptian religion saw several parallel and competing orientations pop up, as well as strong changes of the orthodox creed over time.
		Ancient Egyptian Religion is recognized for its many gods, as many as 80 have been counted.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/egypt_rl.htm (1120 words)

	Ancient Near East - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As such, it is a term widely employed in the fields of Near Eastern archaeology, ancient History and Egyptology.
		The ancient Near East is generally understood as encompassing Mesopotamia (modern Iraq and Syria), Persia (Iran), Egypt, the Levant (Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Palestinian Authority), and Anatolia (Turkey).
		Map of the ancient Near East during the Amarna period, showing the great powers of the period: Egypt (green), Hatti (yellow), the Kassite kingdom of Babylon (purple), Assyria (grey), and Mittani (red).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ancient_Orient (337 words)

	National Museum Of Damascus ( Syria ) - Ancient Syria
		Among the countries of the ancient Arab Orient, Syria is the one that is the richest in historical and archaeological wealth.
		It is rightly said that each stone of her soil narrates history of a bygone civilization and that each of her numerous ancient hillocks harbours in its bowels a story from the past and throws tight on the ancient civilizations that existed long in this region
		As Syria was on the crossroads of the ancient world, many civilizations sprouted and flourished here and enlightened the far and near countries.
	www.geocities.com /encyclopedia_damascena/ancientsyria/index.htm (540 words)

	China - Astronomy
		The ancient Chinese invented the first planetarium, which was actually made by an emperor.
		To the ancient Chinese, solar eclipses meant that dragons were devouring the sun.
		A solar eclipse of 16 June 763 BC mentioned in an Assyrian text is important for the Chronology of the Ancient Orient.
	www.crystalinks.com /china_astronomy.html (673 words)

	Theology Today - Vol 17, No. 2 - July 1960 - BOOK REVIEW - A History Of Israel
		With his knowledge of Semitic languages, archaeology, ancient history, and Biblical theology he is well qualified to undertake a task of this nature and he has succeeded admirably in accomplishing his purpose.
		Ancient Israel never lived in a vacuum, and revelation took place in history.
		It is also necessary to know the cultural and political situation in the ancient Near East even from prehistoric times as well as the international scene in which Israel fulfilled its destiny.
	theologytoday.ptsem.edu /jul1960/v17-2-bookreview16.htm (940 words)

	Babylon Ancient City Mesopotamia: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		One of the most important cities of the ancient Middle East, it was on the Euphrates River and was north of the cities that flourished in S Mesopotamia in the 3d millennium b.c.
		...Predecessor of the city--the fortified...Iraq, as ancient Babylonia is named...began.
		Babylon...the ancient Mesopotamian capital of Babylon is 55 miles...cities of the ancient world was...from the city of Babylon...
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/babylon-ancient-city-mesopotamia.jsp?l=B&p=1 (1509 words)

	The Silk Road
		For thousands of years the mysteries and secrets of the Ancient Orient have been attracting the worlds attention.
		Today, the unique history, culture and religion of this land still enjoy popularity among international tourists, who are eager to catch a glimpse of this magical world of "1001 nights".
		Best season for traveling in Central Asia, the culture of the ancient Orient; our traditionally excellent service and comfort will make it an unforgettable experience for you.
	www.orientexpress.ru /silk.htm (187 words)

	Babylon (ancient city) - Further Reading - MSN Encarta
		The Ancient Orient: An Introduction to the Study of the Ancient Near East.
		Overview of the ancient Near East and its philosophies, languages, economics, arts, and more.
		This volume examines the evolution of the very earliest cities that inspired the rest of the ancient world.
	encarta.msn.com /readings_761560431/Babylon_(ancient_city).html (197 words)

	Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism: I. Rome and the Orient
		We find it hard to believe that the Orient has not always lived, to some extent, in the state of humiliation from which it is now slowly emerging, and we are inclined to ascribe to the ancient inhabitants of Smyrna, Beirut or Alexandria the faults with which the Levantines of to-day are being reproached.
		The Orient was her superior in the extent and precision of its technical.
		The invasion of the Oriental religions that destroyed the ancient religions and national ideals of the Romans also radically transformed the society and government of the empire, and in view of this fact it would deserve the historian's attention even if it had not foreshadowed and prepared the final victory of Christianity.
	www.sacred-texts.com /cla/orrp/orrp05.htm (4493 words)

	HIMAL SOUTHASIAN \| March - April 2006
		Wagner’s concepts of the Orient and his use of them were not merely ornamental spiritual exotica, as some have supposed.
		The second is the Islamic Orient, the near horizon for many of his music dramas, the orient of the Crusades, against which the medieval Germanic knights waged holy war.
		Finally, there is the Orient of ancient Iran and India, the far horizon for his works, the birthplace of Brahmanism and Buddhism.
	www.himalmag.com /2006/march/essay_1.html (2688 words)

	The Entrance to Ancient Times
		Ancient Times is a private online community created for the intention of fostering good solid historical discussion on aspects of ancient times, civilizations, cultures and archaeology.
		Ancient Times also hosts a few roleplay topics, as well as providing for social and relaxation topics.
		A variety of resources are available for the student of ancient history to pursue his or her interests.
	www.ancienttimes.net (142 words)

	After 4,000 years, love keeps poem alive - Africa & Middle East - International Herald Tribune
		A small tablet in a special display this month at the Istanbul Museum of the Ancient Orient is thought to be the oldest love poem ever found, the words of a lover from more than 4,000 years ago.
		The Sumerian tablet was unearthed in the late 1880s in Nippur, an ancient city in what is now Iraq, and had been resting quietly in a modest corner of the museum until it was brought back to the limelight this year by a company that made it part of a Valentine's Day promotion.
		Despite the tablets' ancient lineage, they had gone relatively unnoticed by most museum visitors until the company provided the money to make the tablet with the poem the centerpiece of a special exhibit.
	www.iht.com /articles/2006/02/14/news/POETRY.php (684 words)

	Ancient Iranian Artifact from Afghanistan Turns up in Tokyo - CAIS Archaeological & Cultural Daily News of Iran©
		An ancient marble sculpture, ``Left Foot of Zeus,'' which vanished from the Kabul Museum in Afghanistan in 1993, has turned up in Tokyo and will be displayed at the Ancient Orient Museum from next month, sources said Wednesday.
		The fate of the sculpture after it was stolen remains unclear, but last year a Japanese art dealer bought it from a Pakistani broker.
		The dealer then sought advice from officials of the Ancient Orient Museum in Tokyo.
	www.cais-soas.com /news/2001/April2001/26-04.htm (447 words)

	Chronology of the ancient Near East - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The chronology of the ancient Near East deals with the notoriously difficult task of assigning dates to various events, rulers and dynasties of the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC.
		They provide clear evidence that the New Kingdom kings Amenhotep III and Akhenaten were contemporaries of Kadashman-Enlil I and Burnaburiash II of Babylon, Ashur-uballit I of Assyria, and Suppiluliumas I of the Hittite empire.
		His Venus tablets of Ammisaduqa (i.e., several ancient versions on clay tablets) are famous, and several books had been published about them.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chronology_of_the_Ancient_Orient (4172 words)

	The Ancient Orient Collection
		The Ancient Orient Collection in the museum contains some Egyptian and Hittite artifacts, but the early Mesopotamian collection is certainly the most stunning.
		The final items of the Ancient Orient collection include the most precious of all - the Kadesh Treaty.
		The Treaty of Kadesh concludes around 1269 BC between the Egyptian and Hittite empires, originally written on a sheet of silver.
	www.campbellholt.com /rtw2001/day08f.htm (609 words)

	Orient Express Hotel - Location (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Orient Express Hotel located in the historical peninsula in SIRKECI "the old city center of Istanbul" has taken her name from the nostalgic train ORIENT EXPRESS which in its time carried kings, princes, statemen to Istanbul.
		A delightful museum on the ancient hippodrome, housed in Ibraham Pasa Sarayi, the home of Suleyman the Magnificent's Grand Vizier.
		Büyükhendek Sokak, Sishane Tel: 2451160 Galata Tower was built by the Genoeses as the principle tower of the Galata walls in 1348.
	www.orientexpresshotel.com /location.php (667 words)

	Law in the ancient Orient - www.GatewaysToBabylon.com
		In no other ancient Oriental law is the status of a woman as low as it is in these Middle Assyrian laws.
		In view of the limited number and uneven distribution of the legal collections, as well as their limited value as witnesses to actual legal praxis, the legal documents, in connection with the letters dealing with the same themes, are the richest Source for the study of ancient Oriental law and the activity of the judges.
		In: The Ancient Orient - an introduction to the Study of the Ancient Near East.
	www.gatewaystobabylon.com /introduction/lawvonsoden2.html (4084 words)

	Fraternity of East and West
		THERE is a growing interest in the Orient which shows itself everywhere -- in political circles and art soirees; among literary critics and philosophic students.
		Human emotion and human thought are moulding afresh the destiny of races with an amazingly accelerated speed, but these races of the old world are vastly different from those of the new.
		The culture of any nation flowers on the tree of purity and peace; the roots are in the hard soil of the past.
	wisdomworld.org /additional/ancientlandmarks/FraternityOfEast-West.html (775 words)

	Untitled Document
		Lord Cromer wrote of Oriental incapacity to reason in his work Modern Egypt, “Although the ancient Arabs acquired in a somewhat higher degree the science of dialectics, their descendants are singularly deficient in the logical faculty” (Said 38).
		The division of the East and West became a relationship of unequal responsibility: the East needed the West to compensate for its deficiencies.
		Said speaks of the grandeur that Europeans bestowed on the ancient Orient as an incredible power maneuver considering the interrelatedness of “doctrines of European superiority, various kinds of racism, imperialism, and the like, dogmatic views of ‘the Oriental’ as a kind of ideal and unchanging abstraction” (Said 8).
	www.stolaf.edu /depts/cis/wp/nervig/isfinal.htm (3050 words)

	Ancient Times - Orient
		Your moderators at the Orient are Jebu and Somatophylax.
		While steeped in centuries of history and traditions, venture to the Imperial Courts of China; or out into the countryside, as you allow accretions of centuries of dynasties, and their rich and varied learning, to wash over you.
		The Orient gave us paper and gunpowder; the Orient is the seat of the major Eastern spiritual paths: Buddhism, Hindoism, Taoism, Shinto.
	www.ancienttimes.net /regions/orient.html (188 words)

	The Oldest Line in the World - New York Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Muazzez Hilmiye Cig, a Turkish historian, with a replica of an ancient Sumerian tablet, unearthed in the 1880's, that is inscribed with a love poem for a king.
		The ancient Sumerian tablet was unearthed in the late 1880's in Nippur, a region in what is now Iraq, and had been resting quietly in a modest corner of the museum until it was brought back to the limelight this year by a company that made it part of a Valentine's Day promotion.
		Despite the tablets' ancient lineage, they had gone relatively unnoticed by most museum visitors until the company provided the money to make it the centerpiece of a special exhibit.
	travel2.nytimes.com /2006/02/14/international/europe/14poem.html (776 words)

	Museums & Galleries - Ancient Near East .net
		Museums and galleries with collections relating to the archaeology, history and culture of the ancient Near East and Egypt are listed below in their home countries (see navigation at right) and in alphabetical order.
		Among these are an extraordinary set of six limestone reliefs, acquired in 1854, from the palace of the Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 BCE) and a group of Early Christian floor mosaics from Homs, in Syria.
		It houses ancient Egyptian monuments and artefacts, partly from Rome and the Villa Adriana (Tivoli) - from where they had been transferred mostly in the Imperial age - and partly from private collections (purchased by 19th century collectors).
	www.ancientneareast.net /museums.html (633 words)

	Alay, Sublime Port, Museum of Ancient Orient
		The mantle facade, the unusual sliced effect of the dome, the gilded bars at the windows, make of this pavillion a little work of art; it was built originally during the reign of the Sultan Fatih Mehmet, but the latest modifications to it date from 1819.
		It is amazing, the very stuff of dreams, to think of all the life that has passed before the gilded windows of this fine kiosk, today, virtually abandoned, in an isolated corner of the ancient capital.
		The ancient civilization of the Orient and the Assyrian, Hittite and Babylon works are here; represented by rare and rich works for the pleasure of those who love antique gems and workmanship.
	www.istanbulportal.com /istanbulportal/History-11.aspx (648 words)

	Fellowcraft
		In the Ancient Orient, all religion was more or less a mystery and there was no divorce from it of philosophy.
		Her ceremonies are like the ancient mystic shows,--not the reading of an essay, but the opening of a problem, requiring research, and constituting philosophy the arch-expounder.
		Though Masonry is identical with the ancient Mysteries, it is so only in this qualified sense: that it presents but an imperfect image of their brilliancy, the ruins only of their grandeur, and a system that has experienced progressive alterations, the fruits of social events, political circumstances, and the ambitious imbecility of its improvers.
	www.freemasonrywatch.org /md_fellowcraft.html (13967 words)

	The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature: bibliographic reference
		Jacobsen, T. "Religious Drama in Ancient Mesopotamia." In Unity and Diversity: Essays in the History, Literature and Religion of the Ancient Near East.
		Kramer, S.N. Sumerian Literary Texts from Nippur in the Museum of the Ancient Orient at Istanbul 223.
		Sjöberg, Åke W. "A blessing of King Urninurta." In Essays on the Ancient Near East in Memory of Jacob Joel Finkelstein.
	www-etcsl.orient.ox.ac.uk /proverbs/references.html (7294 words)

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		The ancient Orient : an introduction to the study of the ancient Near East
		Decoding ancient history : a toolkit for the historian as detective
	librarything.com /catalog_bottom.php?tag=ancient+history&... (144 words)

	Ataman Hotel - Ancient Orient Museum
		The building which today houses the Museum of the Ancient Orient was built in 1883 to house the Academy of Fine Arts founded by Osman Hamdi Bey.
		When the Academy of Fine Arts moved to new premises in Cagaloglu in the early 20th century, the old building was converted into a museum by Halil Edhem Bey to exhibit finds from the ancient cultures of the Near East.
		The Museum of the Ancient Orient collections consist of pre-Islamic works from the Arabian peninsula, Egypt, Mesopotamia and Anatolia.
	www.atamanhotel.com /istanbul/ancientorient.html (334 words)

	C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\MYDOCU~1\MYWEBS~1\ASAWEB~1\BOOKRE~3\9-68.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		An analysis of the component elements reveals that the Sinai Covenant is similar to covenants of the late second millennium but not to those of the first millennium, thus supporting the Mosaic date of the Covenant against critics who would place it later.
		He further notes that in other Near Eastern chronologies the ancients arrived at totals that were larger than the elapsed time by adding up the reigns or genealogies of rulers, some of whom lived not consecutively after each other but in part contemporaneously with each other.
		The figures of 480 or of 553 plus years may perhaps be taken as aggregate sums larger than the elapsed time of some 300 years permitted by the "late" date for the Exodus.
	www.asa3.org:16080 /ASA/BookReviews1949-1989/9-68.html (2469 words)

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