* John Sargent, alter ego of fictional DC Comics character Sargon the Sorcerer c. 1941

Sargon the Sorcerer is a fictional character, a second string mystic, superhero and sorcerer appearing in DC Comics during the Golden Age.

Although they were soon joined by Sargon as bassist, the young band faced many issues with its line-up that prevented them from progressing.

Damnagoras performed both lead vocals and bass for the recording and subsequent concerts as Sargon previously left the band.

The earliest historical records of Anatolia stem from the south east of the region, and are from the Mesopotamian based Akkadian Empire during the reign of Sargon of Akkad in the 24th century BC.

As Sargon extended his conquest from the " Lower Sea " ( Persian Gulf ), to the " Upper Sea " ( Mediterranean ), it was felt that he ruled " the totality of the lands under heaven ", or " from sunrise to sunset ", as contemporary texts put it.

The earliest " year names ", whereby each year of a king's reign was named after a significant event performed by that king, date from the reign of Sargon the Great.

These alleged refugees claimed the ancestry of Sargon of Akkad ( whose dynasty died out some 15 centuries before the fall of Assyria ), they also contradictionally claimed ancestry from Nabopolassar, a Babylonian king of Chaldean extraction who played a major part in the destruction of the Assyrian Empire.

Additionally, the claimants to this ancestry also claim descendancy from Sargon of Akkad ( whose dynasty died out over 1500 years before the Assyrian dynasty fell ), and from Nabopolassar, who was a Chaldean, politically and militarily opposed to Assyria, and not in fact an Assyrian.

Two, from the Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa ( compiled in Babylon around 1700 BCE ) are reported to have been made during the reign of king Sargon of Akkad ( 2334 – 2279 BCE ).

* Alabaster bas-reliefs from the Palace of Sargon II

Although mythical elements are not so prominent in Exodus as in Genesis, the echoes of ancient legends are crucial to understanding the book's origins and purpose: for example, the story of the infant Moses's salvation from the Nile has its basis in an earlier legend of king Sargon, while the story of the parting of the Red Sea trades on Mesopotamian creation mythology.

The earliest mention of the city of Babylon can be found in a tablet from the reign of Sargon of Akkad, dating back to the 24th century BC.

The tablet, measuring, is usually dated from the dynasty of Sargon of Akkad between 2500-2300 BC ; an even earlier date for the tablet was promulgated by archeologist Leo Bagrow, placing it in the Agade Period ( 3800 BC ).

The Kingdom of Israel was conquered by the Assyrian ruler Sargon II in the late 8th century BCE with many people from the capital Samaria being taken captive to Media and the Khabur River valley.

Assyrian tablets from the reign of Sargon II record attacks by a " Mita ", king of the Mushki, against Assyria's eastern Anatolian provinces.

The inscription of Sargon II records the deportation of a relatively small proportion of the Israelites from Samaria ( 27, 290, according to the annals ), so it is quite possible that a sizable population remained that could identify themselves as Israelites, the term that the Samaritans prefer for themselves.

Bas-relief from the king Sargon II's palace at Dur Sharrukin in Assyria ( now Khorsabad in Iraq ), c. 713 – 716 BC.

The origins of falconry have been traced to Mesopotamia and the earliest record comes from the reign of Sargon II ( 722 – 705 BC ).

The earliest mention of the city of Babylon can be found in a tablet from the reign of Sargon of Akkad ( 2334-2279 BC ), dating back to the 23rd century BC.

Sumerian references to the Mar. tu (" tent dwellers " – considered to be Amorite ) country West of the Euphrates date from even earlier than Sargon, at least to the reign of the Sumerian king, Enshakushanna of Uruk.

A lamassu from the palace of Sargon II at Dur-Sharrukin.

* c. 720 BC — Guardian figure ( pictured, right ), from the entrance to the throne room at palace of Sargon II is made.

* Sargon the Sorcerer, comic superhero character from DC Comics, first appeared in 1941

There is a reference in an Assyrian inscription from Sargon II's time to Anami, a tribe located in Cyrene, Libya.

For the unnamed " king of Babylon " a wide range of identifications have been proposed. They include a Babylonian ruler of the prophet Isaiah's own time the later Nebuchadnezzar II, under whom the Babylonian captivity of the Jews began, or Nabonidus, and the Assyrian kings Tiglath-Pileser, Sargon II and Sennacherib, Herbert Wolf held that the " king of Babylon " was not a specific ruler but a generic representation of the whole line of rulers.

Although the 2006 Encyclopædia Britannica reflects Herodotus, stating, " They Cimmerians probably did live in the area north of the Black Sea, but attempts to define their original homeland more precisely by archaeological means, or even to fix the date of their expulsion from their country by the Scythians, have not so far been completely successful ," in recent research academic scholars have made use of documents dating to centuries earlier than Herodotus, such as intelligence reports to Sargon, and note that these identify the Cimmerians as living south rather than north of the Black Sea.

Under Sargon and his successors, Akkadian language was briefly imposed on neighboring conquered states such as Elam.

Sargon of Akkad ( Sharru-kin = " legitimate king ", possibly a title he took on gaining power ; 24th century BC ) defeated and captured Lugal-Zage-Si in the Battle of Uruk and conquered his empire.

Images of Sargon were erected on the shores of the Mediterranean, in token of his victories, and cities and palaces were built at home with the spoils of the conquered lands.

The Arabs whom he employed in these excavations, to their great surprise, came upon the ruins of a building at the mound of Khorsabad, which, on further exploration, turned out to be the royal palace of Sargon II, which was largely explored for sculptures and other precious relics.

According to 2 Kings and Josephus the people of Israel were removed by the king of the Assyrians ( Sargon II ) to Halah, to Gozan on the Khabur River and to the towns of the Medes.

Sennacherib ( pronounced ; Akkadian: Sîn-ahhī-erība " Sîn has replaced ( lost ) brothers for me ") was the son of Sargon II, whom he succeeded on the throne of Assyria ( 705 – 681 BC ).

As the crown prince, Sennacherib was placed in charge of the Assyrian Empire while his father, Sargon II, was on campaign.

A crystal lens, turned on the lathe, was discovered by Austen Henry Layard at Nimrud along with glass vases bearing the name of Sargon ; this could explain the excessive minuteness of some of the writing on the Assyrian tablets, and a lens may also have been used in the observation of the heavens.

that on the other bank was Accad, the old capital of Sargon I, where he established a great library.

The Neo-Assyrian Empire ( 911-605BCE ) was probably the most dominant power on earth between the 10th Century BCE and the late 7th Century BCE, with an empire stretching from Cyprus in the west to central Iran in the east, and from the Caucasus mountains in the north to Nubia, Egypt and Arabia in the south, facilitating the spread of Mesopotamian culture and religion far and wide under emperors such as Ashurbanipal, Tukulti-Ninurta, Tiglath-Pileser, Shalmanesser IV, Sargon II, Sennacherib and Esarhaddon.

* 705 – Sargon II of Assyria dies on an expedition against the Kulummu.

Sargon took the capital Izirtu, and stationed troops in Parsuash ( the original home of the Persian tribe, on lake Urmia ) and Kar-Nergal ( Kishesim ).

While most of the army returned to Assyria, Sargon went on to sack the Urartian temple of the god Haldi and his wife Bagbartu at Musasir ( Ardini ).

Sargon claims to have lost only one charioteer, two horsemen and three couriers on this occasion.

As many Babylonian officials as well as the Babylonian administrative system stayed in place after the transition of power, it has been surmised that this time was spent on negotiations with representatives from the city ; this is similar to what happened when the Neo-Assyrian king Sargon II and later Alexander the Great took the city.

The revolt of Samaria ( Israel ) took place during his reign, and while he was besieging the rebel city, he died on the 12th of Tebet 722 BC and the crown was seized by his brother Sargon II.

The oldest name for Anatolia, " Land of the Hatti ", was found on Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets from the period of Sargon the Great of Akkad ca.

2350 – 2150 BC: on those tablets Assyrian-Akkadian traders implored King Sargon for help.

Much information on Sargon ( ca.

2 ) # 50 ( which was tied to the events of the Crisis on Infinite Earths ), John Constantine comes to get Zatanna, Mento and Sargon the Sorcerer to come together to help demonic and divine forces in other hellish dimensions battle the entity known as the ' Great Evil Beast '.

Sargon answered a summons by Constantine to participate in a ritual at the mansion of Winters in July 1985 to help deal with the effects of the Crisis on Infinite Earths, using the Swamp Thing as their portal into the war being fought in Hell.

Sargon would later return in Swamp Thing, " borrowing " the body of an elderly German man named Koestler and planning to lead the souls trapped in Hell in an assault on Heaven.