Social life among the Assyrians and Babylonians

Ezekiel tells us how in the latter days of the Jewish kingdom the palace walls of Babylonia were adorned with ‘images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion, girded with gir...

Babylonia was the land of bricks, Assyria of stone. It was in Babylonia that the great tower had been built of brick whose head, it was intended, should ‘reach to heaven.’ The b...

The Babylonians were the Chinese of the ancient world. They were essentially a reading and writing people. In spite of the intricacy of their system of writing, with its multitu...

It is doubtful how far polygamy was practised among the Assyrians and Babylonians. The rich and powerful, indeed, permitted themselves to indulge in the possession of more than...

In the tenth chapter of Genesis[19] mention is made by the side of Nineveh of ‘the city Rehoboth,’ which should rather be translated ‘the public square of the city.’ It represen...

In Assyria and Babylonia, as throughout the ancient world, slavery formed one of the most important elements of social life. The distinction between the freeman and the slave wa...

Society in Assyria and Babylonia in the later period to which most of our documentary evidence belongs was highly complex. Trades and professions of all kinds were recognized by...

The religion of Assyria and Babylonia was substantially the same. In both countries it was derived in the first instance from the beliefs of the early Accadian or Sumerian popul...