Word: nebuchadnezzar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have shown that burial customs of the two peoples were similar. From the Elamites descended the Sumerians, some of whose painted terra-cotta statuary has been recovered. Between 4000 and 3000 B.C. the Sumerians, a higher type of civilization, gave up burial alive. The diggers also discovered traces of Nebuchadnezzar's restoration work on the temple of Harsgakalemma, and a baby's rattle in the form of a hollow clay hedgehog with a hardened mud marble...
...Jewess Judith beguiles the general Holofernes, comes from King Nebuchadnezzar to capture the city of Bethulia. She chops off his head, exhibits it proudly to her people...