Bishop Ussher
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- Bishop Ussher
- Added up ages of Bible, dated 4040 to time of adam and eve; doesnt work because genealogy only name highlight, not every generation
- Laylard
- Excavated city of Ninevah, inside palace of royal archives of Assyrian king asshur banipal
- Asshur Banipal
- first known antiques collector, lived couple years after David, collected ancient artifacts and stories for his library - most of out known stories come from his library
- George smith
- went back to ninevah and found more tablets including tablet 11 (which talked about the flood)
- lugal-zaggesi
- earliest "wuss leader", organized 50 ensis to take on opposing foe (got creamed), put him under the walls of the city and spit on him
- Sir Leonard Woolley
- Archeologist, excavated southern mesopotamia (Iraq), found city of Ur (abraham), royal burial including layer of gold, human sacrafices, and royal standard of mesopotamia (200 years before abraham)
- Sargon of Akkad
- Illigitimate child, Similar to Moses (basket), becomes butler, the king who he is serving dies (he did it) known for making Acadian the official language, placed conquored rulers back in place, and rebuilt temples to give people back their gods
- Enheduanna
- sargon's first daughter, first known female author (poems)
- Gilgamesh
- tyrant turned hero, searched for eternal life, 2/3 man, 1/3 god
- Enkidu
- 2/3 beast, 1/3 god, created to take out gilgamesh, but they became friends
- Utnapishtma
- told gilgamesh about utnapishtim and the flood
- Utanapishtim
- pagan Noah; included in epic of gilgamesh
- Ubartutu
- father of utanapishtim, last to live and die before the flood
- Lullaby people
- short, defeated in battle
- Pettenato
- italian archeologist discovered city of Ebwa including royal archive with 20,000 tablets; time period overlaps patriarches
- Gudea
- ruler that took over Akkadian empire, 70 high quality statues
- Ur- nammu
- ruler of Ur III, commisioned to build a great ziggurat in Ur as shown on his stele
- Shulgi
- neo-Sumerian king, had to run 100 miles in a day to return to celebrate at a religious festival
- Mursilis
- Hittite ruler, conquored babylonians, murdered by rebellion on return trip that lead to end of babylonian empire
- Mel Quart
- Discovered Hittite sites in turkey
- Hofner
- leading hitite scholor in chicago
- Henry Rawlingson
- copied inscriptions from ledge on latter in order to translate Cuneiform script, 1840, was in the military
- Allen Millard
- discovered story of Atrahasis (creation and flood) in desk drawer, Enki vs. Enlil
- Bob Blackard
- Discovered titanic, city around black sea with docks and boats still in docks
- Mantho
- Greek Egyptian, first to split dynasties into groups
- Flinters petry
- found small statue of Khufu/Cheops
- Zachihawass
- head archeologist in Egypt, oversees excavation of pyramids
- Urukagina
- first known author of laws
- Naram-sin
- considered himself a god, conquored a lot of cities
- the Guti
- fall of the Akkadian Empire, (people were mad at them and they were too spread out), blonde hair, blue eyed, gudea - their statue
- Hammurabi
- most comprehensive law code, story similar to moses (laws) eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth
- Annana
- god of fertility
- Erishkigil
- sister, queen of hell
- Ninhursag
- god of animal life and birth
- Nabu
- god of wisdom
- Ninurta
- god of war
- Utu
- god of the sun
- Gula
- god of medicine and healing
- Kenneth Kitchen
- specialist in Egypt, came up with interesting demonstration for the authenticity of the Bible. Took about 30 things in patriarchic narrative, then he took every known instance about these items and took the bible and found out where it fits within the bible. and in every instance they fit exactly with the instances in the bible
- Dhoser
- invented step pyramid in a place called Saqqara
- Inhotep
- first guy that figured out the solar calender of a year, seen as a healing god, associated with medicine
- Snefru and Hetepheres
- changed the angle of the pyramid
- George Weisner
- tripod broke through the ground and found a sealed tomb and inside was a sarcophagus with nothing in it, found a blacelet and an arm in the wall
- Khufu
- built great pyramid in Giza
- Zahi Hawals
- leading archeologist in Egypt
- Usas
- his tomb was the first one filled with writing
- Pepi
- longest reigning King in historical times, became king when he was 4 and reigned till he was 100
- Uni and Harkhuf
- served under Pepi, sent on missions (dancing dwarf)
- Mentuhotep
- introduced a new place for burial: dig graves into cliffs, no more pyramids
- Sesostrus III
- pulled together agriculture and put someone in charge and byb doing this was able to solidify the centralization of egypt (directly overlaps joseph)
- Kahmose and Ahmose
- drove the Hyskos out