The cultural links between Mesopotamia and the cultural centers in the north of the Arabian Peninsula in the Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian eras

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Faculty of Archeology, Cairo University (Egypt)

Abstract

This study aims to address the cultural links between Mesopotamia and the cultural centers in the north of the Arabian Peninsula since the early first millennium BC. And that is by shedding light on the textual and pictorial evidence that came in the annals of the Assyrian and Babylonian kings in their modern or late ages, and was represented in their inscriptions on the walls of their palaces in Nimrud (Kaleh), Khorsabad, Nineveh, and Babylon.
The study also highlights the importance of the role played by the Arab regions in general and the north of the Arabian Peninsula in particular in relation to Mesopotamia and the countries of the ancient Near East, where the land trade routes played an important role in the prosperity of the civilizations of the north and south of the Arabian Peninsula, and the stability of peaceful relations with neighboring civilizations through these trade routes. During the first millennium BC ,the peoples of the Arabian Peninsula were not just nomadic tribes, but in fact we find that they have achieved and developed coherent and stable cultures in several regions of the Arabian Peninsula.
The research will address the following elements:
First: the importance of the location of the Arabian Peninsula.
Secondly: The prominent role of the most important land trade routes in the Arabian Peninsula.
Thirdly: The most important cultural centers in the north of the Arabian Peninsula since the beginning of the first millennium BC. Until the fifth century BC.
Fourthly: Textual and pictorial evidence of the existence of cultural links between Mesopotamia and the north of the Arabian Peninsula in the modern Assyrian era.
Fifthly: The textual and pictorial evidence of the existence of cultural links between Mesopotamia and the north of the Arabian Peninsula in the late Babylonian era.
Sixthly: results of the research

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