Abstract The war between Assyria and Egypt resulted in the deportation of scholars from Nile Valley to Mesopotamia. Among them were so-called “snake charmers.” While it was a well-known profession Egypt, this not case or Babylonia, where treatment snakebites scorpion stings left exorcist doctors. A number clues late Neo-Assyrian Achaemenid Persian periods suggest that charmers” enjoyed success ...

The interest in the Seleucid empire and problems of organizing political space Hellenistic East has recently been due to a methodological turn historiography era. These changes actualized study role Babylonia first Seleucids according narrative epigraphic sources. satrapy appears them as region where career Diadochus founder Seleucus dynasty began after death Alexander Great. It was here that h...

he relationship between medicine and religion belongs to the classical topics of medical history, in the studies of the so called early civilizations, mainly Egypt and Babylonia, of Greek and Roman antiquity, of the occidental and oriental Middle Ages and of the European early modern period. Yet about a century ago, preformed by enlightenment ideas on linear progress of humankind and often expl...