babylonia

Tukulti-Ninurta I defeated Kashtiliash IV, the Kassite king of Babylonia, and captured the rival city of Babylon to ensure full Assyrian supremacy over Mesopotamia. He set himself up as king of Babylon. After a Babylonian revolt, he raided and plundered the temples in Babylon, regarded as an act...

Hittite King Mursili I invaded Yamhad in Northern Syria to avenge his grandfather Hattusili I's defeat and defeat it's hands. He captured it's capital Aleppo ending it. Next he invaded Mesopotamia and marched on Babylon sacking it which ended the Old Babylonian Empire of Hammurabi's dynasty. But...

Nedias the Great before becoming satrap Nedias the Great's life before taking the satrapy of Babylon is not well-known. The main sources for it are Babylonian papyrus written under his empire, but those are not exactly reliable, as well as local legends, which suffer from the same problem...

Exactly what says in the title. Would the romans choose to go to battle against the parthians in full force to conquer one of the most wealthy regions of the antiquity instead of just conquering a bunch of celtic tribes in Britannia?

Sometime around this era, in the 480s BC, there was yet again another attempt by the Egyptians to win their independence from the hated Persians. Herodotus mentions it being in the last years of Darius I and the early years of Xerxes I, and archaeological and epigraphic evidence supports this...

After the Battle of Gaugamela, Darius III and what remained of his armies fled eastwards into the Upper Satrapies, leaving Babylonia behind. The satrap of Babylonia, Mazaeus, quickly defected to Alexander and Darius III was murdered by his own generals. What if he fled southwards into Babylonia...

What if the Babylonian King Hammurabi (1810-1750 BCE) had never risen to prominence as a regional warlord in Mesopotamia? I can see some immediate consequences being the survival, however short or long, of the small empires of Larsa and Mari, alongside a stronger hegemony for Elam and perhaps an...

According to the predominant modern theory, OTL the early Jewish people were predominantly monolatrous in Iron Age I and did not become monotheistic until the Babylonian captivity. Monolatrism is the belief or recognition of many gods but the insistence on worshipping only one of them...

As a fun thought experiment, I would like to know how it could be possible for the rather extravagant beards of the ancient mesopotamians and achaemenid persians to be replaced with a clean shaven face as the male standard of beauty! Bonus points if body hair removal is included :p The Pod...

According to this wikipedia article, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Assyrian_Empire#Period_of_stagnation,_783–745_BC), the Neo-Assyrian Empire was in a period of decline but then saw a revival due to Tiglath-Pileser III ascending the throne. How accurate is this, and how might the near east...