The Descent of Ishtar to the Netherworld

• Another translation of the Descent of Ishtar

The Epic of Gilgamesh

• Epic of Gilgamesh
• Genesis 6-9 (Flood Story) (for comparison)

Amarna Letters, 14th century BCE

Letters from the great kings:

• Letters from Babylonian Kings
  • EA 3: Letter from Kadashman-Enlil II of Babylon to Amenhotep III complaining about not being given a royal wife and proposing to exchange of one of his daughters for gold
  • EA 7: Burnaburiash of Babylon trying to get more old from Akhenaten
  • EA 8: Burnaburiash of Babylon to Akhenaten complaining about the treatment of his merchants
  • EA 9: Burnaburiash of Babylon asking for more gold
  • EA 12: Letter of a Babylonian princes
• Letters from Assyrian Kings
  • EA 15, 16: Assur-ubalit exchanging gifts
• Letters from Hittite Kings
  • EA 41: Suppiluliuma to Akhenaten
• Letters from Mittani
  • EA 17: Letter from Tushratta, King of Mitanni to Amenhotep III
    • Another version
  • EA 23: Tusratta loaning a statue of the goddess Ishtar to Amenhotep III
  • EA 26: Tushratta sending a letter to Queen Tiye
• Letters from the king of Alasiya (Cyprus)
  • EA 35, 38: Letters from the King of Alasiya (Cyprus) to Pharaoh
• Letters from Canaanite rulers (vassal kingdoms)
  • EA 244: Letter from Biridiya of Megiddo to Pharaoh complaining of Labayu's attacks on his territory
    • Labayu of Shechem justifying his behavior
  • EA 286: Letter from Abdi-heba of Jerusalem to Pharaoh asking for help against the Hapiru
    • another version
  • EA 287: Abdi-Heba asking for archers against his enemies
  • EA 298: Letter from Yapahu of Gezer to Pharaoh
  • EA 365: Letter from Biridiya of Megiddo trying to improve his standing in the eyes of the pharaoh
    • another version
  • EA 75: Letter from Rib-Hadda of Gubla to Pharaoh
    • another version
  • EA 79: Letter from Rib-Hadda of Gubla to Pharaoh

King Sennacherib

• Sennacherib Prism
• Sennacherib's Campaign against Jerusalem
• Accounts of the Campaign of Sennacherib, 701 BCE

Nebuchadnezzar

Ishtar Gate Inscription

Herodotus' description of Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon