ترجمة ثلاثة نصوص مسمارية حول حملة الاسكندر المقدوني على بابل

Abstract EN

Most of the Chronicles about the campaign of Alexander the Great on the ancient Near East and Babylonia, relied on the records of historians and travellers who lived after his death, the likes of ( Herodotus) and (Arrian of Nicomedia ), and may not refer to the earliest documentation of the campaign contained in the texts .

And by that I mean the ancient Iraqi cuneiform scripts, known as the Babylonian Chronicles, authored by the Chaldean priests, which included the daily astronomical records and several interesting events, such as the levels of Euphrates River, weather, food prices, and related incidents of Babylon and its temples.

Of course, political events would have a great share, since astrological phenomena are not absent from important political changes, as a kind of signal by the gods, obtained by the astronomer who knows its secrets, including what will appear in the records of the subject.