The outline which stretches along the Lebanese mountain range on the Mediterranean

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An ancient branch of the Semitic languages

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A hard, dark, glasslike volcanic rock formed by the rapid solidification of lava without crystallization

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Relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit

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An ancient city of Sumer and later Babylonia, situated east of the present bed of the Euphrates river

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A large vault, typically an underground one, for burying the dead

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Sargon of Akkad, was a Semitic Akkadian emperor famous for his conquest of the Sumerian city-states in the 23rd and 22nd centuries BC

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Babylon was an Akkadian city-state of ancient Mesopotamia

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The Hittites were a Bronze Age Indo-European speaking people of Anatolia

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A firefree brick, made of a mixture of clay, mud, sand, and water mixed with a binding material such as rice husks or straw

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An ancient Assyrian city on the eastern bank of the Tigris River, and capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire

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King of Babylon

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Darius I was the third king of the Achaemenid Empire. Also called Darius the Great, he ruled the empire at its peak

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Was a king of Macedon, a state in northern ancient Greece

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Ziggurats were massive structures built in the ancient Mesopotamian valley and western Iranian plateau

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One of a number of bands or sections into which a design is divided

A protective deity, often depicted with a bull or lion's body, eagle's wings, and human's head

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