BC, the Near East was dominated by three powerful kingdoms: the Median Empire of Astyages, the Neo-Babylonian Empire of ...

In the Babylonian epic of creation, called the Enuma Elish ("When above..."), the chief god to emerge in Babylon, Marduk, slew the dragon Tiamat, a personification of the sea and watery depths. He ...

With these, Babylonian astrologers estimated when Jupiter and Saturn would be visible. Chaos monster and sun god of Mesopotamia. Some accounts describe the scene as Marduk (with a thunderbolt) ...