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
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