Population Tag

Figure 1: Sites used in our analysis that had house size data. (Image: Squitieri and Altaweel 2022)

October 2023 | Vol. 11.10 By Andrea Squitieri and Mark Altaweel The rise and economic development of mostly Western states from the 18th to 20th centuries resulted in increased ph

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Photograph depicting the University of Pennsylvania excavations in Nippur in the 1890s. The Murašu archive was found in Nippur during the excavations in 1893. Judean farmers from the surrounding countryside visited Nippur to deal with the Babylonian Murašu family who were entrepreneurs in the land-for -service sector. The image is published in H. V. Hilprecht (1896), Old Babylonian Inscriptions Chiefly from Nippur II, plate XXX. The image is in the public domain, accessed via Wikimedia Commons.

June 7, 2022

By ANE Today Editor

Judaism Mesopotamia Social Life War & Empire

Everyday Life in Exile: Judean Deportees in Babylonian Texts

When King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon conquered the kingdom of Judah, part of Judean population was deported to Babylonia. The Hebrew Bible offers little information about exilic

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Population Tag

How Empires and Cities in the Ancient Near East Accelerated Wealth Inequality

Everyday Life in Exile: Judean Deportees in Babylonian Texts