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2.15: Primary Sources and material

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    Below are the resources to facilitate the course lecture.  

     

    Mesopotamia

    The Tales of Gilgamesh - The Flood

    http://web.archive.org/web/19990221091328/http://puffin.creighton.edu/theo/simkins/tx/Flood.html

    The Legend of Sargon of Akkade, 2300 BCE

    https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/ancient/2300sargon1.asp

    The Advise of an Akkadian Father to his son, 2200 BCE

    https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/ancient/2200akkad-father.asp

    The Code of Hammurabi, 1780 BCE

    https://avalon.law.yale.edu/ancient/hamframe.asp

     

    Assyria

    The Code of the Assura, 1075 BCE

    https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/ancient/1075assyriancode.asp

    Accounts of the Campaigns of Sennacherib, 701 BCE

    http://earth-history.com/Babylon/sennacherib.htm

     

    Egypt

    List of Egyptian and Nubian Rulers (secondary source)

    https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/phar/hd_phar.htm

    The Egyptian Book of the Dead, Excerpts

    https://www.ancient.eu/Egyptian_Book_of_the_Dead/

             Herodotus: Mummification, from The Histories

    https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/ancient/herodotus-mummies.asp

    The Great Hymn to Aten

     http://web.archive.org/web/199902210...s/tx/Aten.html

     

    Ancient Israel

    Nova:  Writers of the Bible (secondary source)

    https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bible/coogan.html

    Old Testament:  2 Chronicles 36: 9-23

    http://www.thenagain.info/Classes/Sources/2Chrons36.html


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