A series of strong Amorite kings—including King Hammurabi, famous for compiling the world’s first legal code—enabled Babylon to eclipse the Sumerian capital, Ur, as the region’s most ...

Soon, the Sumerian culture became absorbed into the Amorite culture, and a powerful empire known as Babylon was born. Ancient ...

As mentioned above, the mountain steppe is the arena of the Amorite habitat, and truffles are available in great quantities at Jebel Bishri. The Ebla sources mention gír martu, an Amorite dagger.

There can be no question that the blood of the present Palestinian, or Syrian, includes that of the Jew as well as of the Amorite, Hittite, Phoenician, Philistine, Persian, Greek, Latin ...

Palestine Exploration Quarterly, Vol. 155, Issue. 4, p. 289. In this book, Aaron A. Burke explores the evolution of Amorite identity in the Near East from ca. 2500–1500 BC. He sets the emergence of a ...