The Babylonian king list is not merely a list of kings of Babylon, but is a very specific ancient list of supposed Babylonian kings recorded in several ancient locations, and related to the Sumerian king list. The following is a list of the Kings of Babylon, a major city of ancient Mesopotamia, in modern Iraq. ... The Sumerian king list is an ancient text in the Sumerian language listing kings of Sumer from Sumerian and foreign dynasties. ...
There are two versions, known as King List A (all kings from the First Dynasty of Babylon to king Kandalanu) and King List B (only the two first dynasties). A third version of the list was written, in Greek, by Berossus. The Babylonian King List of the Hellenistic Age is a continuation that mentions all kings from Alexander the Great to Demetrius II Nicator. Berossus (also Berossos or Berosus) Greek: ΒεÏοσσος was a Hellenistic Babylonian writer who was active at the beginning of the 3rd century BC. // Life and work Berossus published the Babyloniaca (hereafter, History of Babylonia) some time around 290-278 B.C.E. for the Macedonian/Seleucid king, Antiochus I. Certain astrological... Alexander the Great fighting Persian king Darius (not in frame) (Pompeii mosaic, from a 3rd century BC original Greek painting, now lost). ...
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