
Code of Hammurabi, king of Babylon in the 18th century BC, erected in Sippar. The code is a set of laws, the most important of ancient middle-east; it predates…

Khorsabad palace, built in the late 8th century BC by the Assyrians. Transportation of Lebanon cedar wood.

Khorsabad palace, built in the late 8th century BC by the Assyrians. Transportation of Lebanon cedar wood.

Khorsabad palace, built in the late 8th century BC by the Assyrians. Transportation of Lebanon cedar wood.

Khorsabad palace, built in the late 8th century BC by the Assyrians. Transportation of Lebanon cedar wood.

Assyrian king Sargon II's 8th campaign, 714 BC. The 430-lines tablet tells the story of Sargon's expedition against the people of Northwest Iran, and the…