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Cases
18
Years
2550 BCE to 2006
Region
Middle East
Main subjects
Scripture and the ancient world, Jewish law and estates, Islamic and Persian empires, Jailed and executed
Families
Hashemites, Ptolemaic dynasty, Umayyad dynasty
Updated
30 October 2026
Saddam Hussein: Saddam Hussein in 19982006 · Baghdad; al-Awja, near Tikrit, Salahuddin, IraqSaddam Hussein was buried in his own mausoleum, the mausoleum was destroyed, and no one will say where his body isSaddam Hussein was hanged at dawn on 30 December 2006. President George W. Bush authorised moving the body by US military helicopter to Tikrit.kuwaittimes.com and 3 moreAl-Rehab Palace, where the story took place1958 · Rihab Palace, Baghdad, IraqIraq's 23-year-old king and his family were shot in the palace courtyard, and the regent's body was dragged through BaghdadFaisal II became King of Iraq at three, after his father King Ghazi died in a car crash in 1939. His uncle Abd al-Ilah ruled as regent until 1953. In July 1958 Faisal was 23 and engaged to an Egyptian princess.Wikipedia (English) and 2 moreShafik Adas: שפיק עדס1948 · Basra, IraqIraq hanged its richest Jew, Shafiq Ades, outside his own house in Basra in 1948 and took his estateShafiq Ades was born in Aleppo in 1900 and built his business in Basra. He imported Ford cars and was described as the wealthiest Jew in Iraq.Internet Archive and 2 moreAmarna letter fragment, from King Tushratta of Mitanni to Queen Tiy (Teye) of Egypt, matching fragment in British Museum: Exhibit in the Oriental Institute Museum, University of Ch1353 BCE · Thebes (Luxor), Egypt, and Mittani (northern Syria and Iraq)Amenhotep III promised the king of Mittani solid-gold statues for his daughter, and after Amenhotep died his son sent gold-plated woodTushratta, king of Mittani, gave his daughter Tadu-Heba to Pharaoh Amenhotep III. He wrote that he gave her at the first request, where his grandfather had waited for a seventh request and his father for a fifth or sixth.repository.bilkent.edu.tr and 3 moreAI illustration: Ptolemy's cavalry turn Alexander the Great's funeral carriage toward Egypt, 321 BC323 BCE · BabylonAlexander the Great left his empire "to the strongest", and his general Ptolemy hijacked his bodyAlexander died in Babylon aged 32, on 10 or 11 June 323 BC by a Babylonian astronomical diary. He ruled from Greece to India and left no adult heir. Arrian records that his Companions asked who would get the kingdom.Wikisource (primary text) and 3 moreHusayn Mosque, Karbala, Iraq 1765: A drawing of the Imam Husayn Mosque by German explorer Carsten Niebuhr during his travels to the Middle East. He drew this illustration of the Im680 · Karbala, IraqMu'awiya made his son Yazid heir to the caliphate; Muhammad's grandson al-Husayn refused to swear and was killed at Karbala with most of his family's menAl-Husayn was the son of Ali and of Muhammad's daughter Fatima (story 22). The caliph Mu'awiya, founder of the Umayyad dynasty, had made the people swear that his son Yazid would be his heir.Internet Archive and 2 morePuabi: Queen Puabi with attendants2550 BCE · Royal Cemetery, Ur (Tell el-Muqayyar), Dhi Qar, IraqQueen Puabi of Ur was buried in gold, and the attendants Woolley said drank poison were killed with blows to the headFrom 1922 Leonard Woolley dug about 2,000 burials at Ur for the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania Museum. In tomb PG 800 lay a woman of about 40.almanac.upenn.edu and 4 moreMap of Iraq, marked on the globe828 · Baghdad, IraqThe Bukhtishu physicians served the caliphs for six generations: one was sentenced to death, one died in exile, and one great-grandson was disinherited by his stepfatherThe Bukhtishu family were Nestorian Christians of Persian descent, physicians from the hospital at Jundishapur. In 765 the caliph al-Mansur summoned Jurjis ibn Bukhtishu to Baghdad.jima.imana.org and 2 moreByzantine-style coinage of Khosrow II, minted in Syria: Heraclius, with Heraclius Constantine. 610-641. Æ Follis (27mm, 9.91 g, 9h). Contemporary imitation of a Nicomedia mint issu660 · Babylonia (Iraq)The exilarch Bostanai married a Persian princess; after his death his other sons claimed her and her children as slavesBostanai was the first exilarch, the hereditary head of Babylonian Jewry, under Arab rule. The exilarchs claimed descent from King David.jewishencyclopedia.com and 3 moreTaq Kasra - 1934: Taq Kasra - 1934628 · Ctesiphon, IraqPersia's crown prince overthrew his father to stop a half-brother's succession, executed him, killed his brothers, and died of plague within monthsKhosrow II ruled Persia from 590; he had come to power after his own father was deposed and blinded in a palace revolt led by Khosrow's uncles.iranicaonline.org and 2 more001125-TaqKasra-Iraq-IMG 7914-2: Taq Kasra, Madain, Iraq - February 2022 - Photo by: Safa Daneshvar طاق کسری، مدائن،‌عراق - بهمن ۱۴۰۰ - عکس از صفا دانشور520 · Mahoza, near Ctesiphon, IraqThe exilarch Mar Zutra II ruled a Jewish state at Mahoza for seven years and was crucified on its bridge; his son was born the same dayThe exilarchs, heads of the Jews of Babylonia, claimed descent from King David and passed the office from father to son. Mar Zutra II was the son of the exilarch Huna, who was killed in the persecutions of the Persian king Firuz.encyclopedia.com and 2 morePhraataces and Musa: Coin of Phraataces and Musa from Parthia2 BCE · Parthian Empire (Iran and Iraq)A slave woman sent from Rome persuaded the Parthian king to send his four sons to Rome, then her son killed him and married herIn 20 BC Phraates IV of Parthia returned the Roman legionary standards to Augustus. In the same exchange he received an Italian slave woman, Musa. Josephus calls her Thermusa and says she was a gift of Julius Caesar.Wikisource (primary text) and 2 moreBattle of Cunaxa: Battle of Cunaxa401 BCE · Cunaxa, near Babylon, IraqCyrus the Younger's mother argued he was born to a reigning king; his elder brother got the throne, killed him at Cunaxa and cut off his head and handHerodotus says that Darius I's sons quarrelled over the succession before his planned war on Egypt and Athens.perseus.tufts.edu and 4 moreCuneiform tablet: account settlement, Egibi archive: Babylonian; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed508 BCE · Babylon and Borsippa, IraqA Babylonian business house split its father's estate on one clay tablet, and its records stop when Babylon revolted against XerxesThe Egibi family ran a business house in Babylon for five generations. Its archive of about 1,700 clay tablets runs from about 602 to 486 BC. Itti-Marduk-balāṭu headed the house in the third generation.nabucco.acdh.oeaw.ac.at and 2 moreBelshazzar's Feast label QS:Lit,"Il festino di Baldassarre" label QS:Lfr,"Le Festin de Balthazar" label QS:Lpl,"Uczta Ba: Belshazzar's Feast label QS:Lit,"Il festino di Baldassarre539 BCE · Jerusalem; Babylon (near Hillah), IraqBabylon took the Temple vessels; Daniel says Belshazzar drank from them the night he was killed, and Ezra says Cyrus returned 5,400Second Kings says that in Nebuchadnezzar's 19th year his captain Nebuzaradan burned the Temple in Jerusalem, broke up its bronze pillars and carried the bronze, gold and silver vessels to Babylon.mechon-mamre.org and 4 moreSennacherib: Sanherib-tr-4271681 BCE · Nineveh (Mosul), IraqSennacherib named his younger son Esarhaddon heir; his elder sons killed him, and Esarhaddon then bound the empire by oath to his own chosen heirEsarhaddon's own inscription says he was the youngest of his older brothers.oracc.museum.upenn.edu and 5 moreHezekiah, King of Judah: Drawing; Drawings687 BCE · Jerusalem, Israel; Babylon, IraqThe Bible says King Hezekiah showed Babylon's envoys his treasury, and Isaiah told him his heirs would lose it; Babylonian tablets record rations for a captive king of Judah2 Kings 20 says the Babylonian king Merodach-baladan sent envoys and a gift to Hezekiah, king of Judah, after hearing he had been ill.biblegateway.com and 2 moreLegal dispute over land - Nuzi: Clay tablet from Yorghan Tepe, ancien Nuzi. Report of a trial relating to the possession of a land and the "tower" (dimtu) which stands at its cente1450 BCE · Nuzi (Yorghan Tepe), near Kirkuk, IraqNuzi law kept land inside the family, so the landowner Tehip-tilla had himself adopted by seller after sellerAbout 7,000 tablets survive from Nuzi, a town near modern Kirkuk, dated about 1440 to 1340 BC.Internet Archive and 3 more