While I was researching accounts of homosexuality in Mesopotamian cultures, I came across this particular article: Homosexuality in the Ancient Near East, beyond Egypt by Bruce L. Gerig. In this article, the author states: Both Zimri-lin (king of Mari) and Hammurabi (king of Babylon) had male lovers, which the queen of Zimri-lin mentions matter-of-factly in a letter. Internet search only provided articles referring to Gerig's article as source. I looked through all the letters queen Shibtu (Z...| Recent Questions - History Stack Exchange
Before delving into WW2 History, I used to think that Concentration Camps for the most part were either in Occupied Poland or Ukraine, to keep it away from the German population and make it easier to| History Stack Exchange
I got this lapel pin in the mid-1980s from a retired communist partisan in Hungary. He had more pins, mostly of communist/socialist organisations, trade fairs, and combines.[1] cold-war era Eastern...| History Stack Exchange
How did attitudes towards women and their role within the family unit and greater society change under the Chinese Republican government? What rights did they gain? Did they generally benefit from ...| History Stack Exchange
[12] Then Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his princes, and his officers went out to the king of Babylon; and the king of Babylon, in the eighth year of his reign, took him priso...| History Stack Exchange
At which point exactly did the aims of the allied powers in the Second World War change from what they were initially to the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany and the other members of the Axis? When did the ‘big three’ agree together that one of their main aims was to remove Hitler and the Nazis from power? I’ve been trying to figure out when this was-certainly (I think) by the Tehran Conference, but had this been jointly agreed before then?| Recent Questions - History Stack Exchange
I found the two quotes below at Pluspedia: Rassismus und Antisemitismus in den Werken von Marx und Engels (Racism and anti-Semitism in the works of Marx and Engels) (and also several other website...| History Stack Exchange
Samuel de Champlain made this engraving of a 1609 battle during the Iroquois War (1609) ("It depicts the July 30th battle between Iroquois and Algonquian tribes near the southern end of Lake| History Stack Exchange
The Tehran Conference during World War 2 was a hugely important meeting, and perhaps more importantly, a hugely dangerous proposition. Having all those leaders together in one place risked utter| History Stack Exchange
