5000 to 478 BC

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Nimrod The Hunter"Nimrod The Hunter"
Relief from the British Museum, London


Relevant books at Amazon:

  • The Rise and Fall of Nimrod by Dudley F. Cates (1997)
  • Noah's Flood : The Genesis Story in Western Thought, by Norman Rufus, Colin Cohn, Norman Cohn (1996)
  • Babylon, by Jean Oates (1986)
  • Archaeology and the Old Testament, by Alfred J. Hoerth (1998)
  • The Encyclopedia of the Ancient World, by Charlotte Hurdman, Philip Steele, Richard Tames, Robert Holgate (Editor), Felicity Cobbing (Editor), Jenny Hall (Editor), Louise Schofield (Editor), John Haywood (Introduction) (2000)
  • The Sumerians, by Sir Leonard Woolley (1980)
  • The Greco-Persian Wars, by Peter Green and Peter Xerxes (1998)