In this study, the political relationship between Mesopotamia and Elam in third millennium BC has been dwelled on Elam’s history aimed to be enlightened. subject period, two dynasties, named respectively Awan Šimaški, have become prominent politically Elam. However, here, almost contemporary with Third Dynasty of Ur, Šimaški out scope, process when Elam's first appearance history, from 27th cen...

From as far back as our sources allow, hymns were part of Near Eastern temple ritual, with their performers an essential component of the temple functionaries. 1 These sources include Sumerian, Akkadian, and Egyptian texts from as early as the third millennium BCE. From the second millennium BCE, we gain further examples of hymns from the Hittite realm, even if most (if not all) of the poems ar...

The Mesopotamian spiny eel, Mastacembelus mastacembelus, an endemic freshwater fish restricted to the Euphrates and Tigris river drainages of Mesopotamian, its related taxa in Afrotropica South Asia present suitable elements for studies evolutionary history mastacembelids across these heterogeneous areas. To understand clarify geographic variation eel from Persian Gulf basin, we investigated mo...

The focus of this paper is on a prototype information system called the Flood Warning Information System (FWIS) that has been developed for the purpose of communicating flood risks to the public. The system explores the use of a graphic and spatial interface for presenting and accessing flood warning messages. Graphics are being used to challenge traditional flood warning modes because they app...

Abstract This study seeks to contextualise the king’s “negative confession,” which took place in spring Akītu Festival of Babylon, within established norms Mesopotamian ritual practice. The humiliation is situated contexts status reversal, lament and weeping. includes a comparative almanac Akkadian prayer and/or exclamation known as šigû .

The arrangement of this study, which approaches the Second Temple Enochic text after I have already examined the medieval Jewish materials and traditions, might appear strange. Yet this organizational choice provides a unique opportunity to highlight some Merkabah features of the Slavonic apocalypse that link the symbolic world of this early Enochic text with the later Metatron imagery.1 It see...