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 | The series begins early in the 5th century B.C. with coins, some of which are didrachms (Aeginetic), having as subjects an eagle carrying a serpent or a hare, and on the reverse a thunderbolt or Victory bearing a wreatharchaic types which in their vigour promise the excellence of later days. |
| The oldest coins may be as early as 480 B.C. They bear the figure of the Minotaur as a bull-headed man, kneeling on one knee, and a maeander-pattern, in one case enclosing a star (the sun), in another a head (Theseus?). |
| The surrender of Jugurtha by Bocchus to Sulla is represented on a denarius of Sulia's son Faustus (62 B.c., Pl. II. |
| MSN Encarta - Mesopotamia (808 words) |
| After 6000 bc the settlements grew, becoming cities by the 4th millennium bc. |
| The oldest settlement in the area is believed to be Eridu, but the best example is Erech (Uruk) in the south, where mud-brick temples were decorated with fine metalwork and stonework, and growing administrative needs stimulated the invention of a form of writing, cuneiform. |
| A raid launched in around 1595 bc by the Hittites from Turkey brought Babylon down, and for four centuries it was controlled by non-Semitic Kassites. |
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