the 21th century, we often hear of the epic of Gilgamesh, the Anunaki, or even Atlantis but we do not really know much. In this book, Veronica Grandpierre helps us to become familiar with its concepts, and it takes us to the earliest times, beginning with the first expeditions to Egypt, to the excavations undertaken by the French and English in Middle East . It helps us see more clearly on what is called the times say: paleo / neo Assyrian paleo / neo Sumerian paleo / neo Babylonian through the era of Hittite (Indo-European empire) and of Mycenaean (during black ancient Greece). As she says in her book: you have to make mental gymnastics with the chronology. It shows us at the same time, the first city-states with such laws, taxes and culture, which gives reference to the democracy we know today, the structure of large cities in Mesopotamia and the role of these people (including the position of women and slaves). And finally, she suggests, the kings and queens, and beliefs with the gods from heaven.
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... With the development of Christianity, Eastern religion, Babylon, a city of exile of the people Hebrew symbolizes the tyranny imposed by the pagan emperor. Then, when the 4th century, it became a Christian himself, the image of Babylon and the east is gradually losing its political aspect to acquire the traits of vice, lust and voluptuousness, and embodies the den of all evil temptations deem ... .
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The Greeks, meanwhile, admires the achievements of the civilizations that succeeded each other while judging their culture inferior to theirs ... But if the Histories of Herodotus brings a wealth of information on the Persian and their predecessors, but rather legends mixing element Assyrian and Babylonian ... Ctesias of Knidos, the royal physician Perce Cyrus consult about it, the archive of the empire, but his work Persica , is known only by fragment transmitted by more recent authors, notably Diodorus of Sicily in the 1st century BC Again it is about legends ...". Berosus, priest of Marduk, god Babylon. It present in Greek, three rolls of papyrus, the main features of the Babylonian civilization. He dedicates his work, The Babyloniaca (Chaldiaca) to the Hellenistic king Antiochus Summarize the first ... by Alexander Polyhistor, Milesian 1st century BC, taken by Euséde of Caesarea, and some quotes provided by Posidonius of Apamea and distributed by Latin authors like Seneca and Vitruvius. The stories in Greek or Latin are to be handled with care ...".
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Preview: "... Later in 1872, when George Smith translated a text from the site of Nineveh, in which he question of a boat stranded on a mountain whose occupant let go a dove, finding no to land, returned to the ship, this discovery made the front of the Daily Telegraph ... " P273 Preview: "... For the people of Mesopotamia, mankind was created by the gods as a whole. The" black heads "as the men call themselves are there to serve them. .. " P375 Preview: "... In Sumerian myth of Enki in and Ninmah ... The gods are divided into two categories: Anunnaku (Anunnaki) and the great gods Igigu ( the minor deities) who work for the first ... The Igigu are tired and revolt against the Anunnaku, especially against Enlil. One of the other gods, then moved to create something that replace Igigu work, man. This setting allows the gods to become idle and thus acquire a relative equality. This explanation for the appearance of man is also found in the Enuma Elischer. This is a translation common to all the Middle East ... "
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