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Topic: Art and architecture of Babylonia and Assyria

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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Babylonia
		It is remarkable that Babylonia possesses no bronze period, but passed from copper to iron; though in later ages it learnt the use of bronze from Assyria.
		In North Babylonia we have again, southernmost, the city of Kish, probably the Biblical Cush (Gen., x, 8); its ruins are under the present mound El-Ohemir, eight miles east of Hilla.
		That, notwithstanding these scenes of bloodshed, it was an age of art and culture can be evidently shown by such finds as that of a superb silver vase of Entemena, Eannatum's son and successor, and, as crown-prince, general of his army.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02179b.htm (9505 words)

	Geometry in Art & Architecture Unit 4
		For those, our only justification in mentioning them is their repeated use as art motifs, and whose recognition may help us to understand a work of art.
		The three graces is a very popular art motif, with involved iconography, but might have been just an excuse for artists to portray nude women.
		The Art of Byzantium and the Medieval West.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~matc/math5.geometry/unit4/unit4.html (2914 words)

	Mesopotamia, history of -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Kassites, the Mitanni, and the rise of Assyria
		Assyria and Babylonia at the end of the 2nd millennium
		Covers history, astronomy, art and architecture, society, and economics.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9108642&ref=news1204 (862 words)

	ipedia.com: Jew Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Surrounded by ancient seats of culture in Egypt and Babylonia, by the mysterious deserts of Arabia, and by the highlands of Asia Minor, the land of Canaan, later Judea, then Palestine, then Israel, was a meeting place of civilizations.
		The land was traversed by old-established trade routes and possessed important harbors on the Gulf of Akaba and on the Mediterranean coast, the latter exposing it to the influence of the Levantine culture.
		After the destruction and exile of the northern Kingdom of Israel by Assyria, the temptations to follow non-Judaic practices continued, so that according to the narratives of Jeremiah and others, it brought about the failure, destruction, and exile of the southern Kingdom of Judah by Babylonia.
	www.ipedia.com /jew.html (6784 words)

	PART - Online Information article about PART
		Assyria about 710 B.C., that is to say, at the exact time when they were subdued by Sargon.
		The first historical king would seem to have been Phraortes, who probably succeeded in subduing the small local princes of Media and in rendering himself independent of Assyria.
		Nebuchadrezzar; while, on the other hand, Assyria proper, east of the See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PAI_PAS/PART.html (5857 words)

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