Cambyses II was born as the eldest son of Cyrus the Great , the first king of Achaemenid Empire . To learn more about …

Nebuchadnezzar II was the second king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire . And the meaning of his name is as follows. O God …

Cyrus the Great was the first king of  Achaemenid Empire . His greatness is that he united all the ancient Orient (Mid…

The Battle of Salamis was a naval battle between the Greek and Persian fleets during the Persian Wars . The battle is …

The Battle of Marathon was fought in 490 B.C. at Marathon, Greece, where the Athenians defeated the Persian expedition…

The Babylonian Captivity was an incident in which the Jews of the Kingdom of Southern Judah were taken captive and r…

Assyria was the region that occupied what is now  northern Iraq . In other words, it referred to the northern part of …

The city-state of " Hittite " appears in the Mesopotamian civilization . This kingdom was very good at manufa…

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were one of the " Seven Wonders of the World " structures chosen by the ancien…

The Code of Hammurabi was promulgated in BC . It is the second code in the world to remain in its complete form. Such …

Babylon , the central city of Babylonia. It is still famous today as the city represented in the " Old Testament &…

The Sumerians are a mysterious people. Sumer is considered to be the oldest urban civilization and the earliest Mesopot…