We find temples and shrines erected in his honour, e. g. at Nippur, Girsu, Ur, Babylon, Sippar, and Nineveh, and the numerous epithets given to him, as well as the various forms under which the god appears, alike bear witness to the popularity which he enjoyed from the earliest to the latest period of Babylonian-Assyrian history.

Compared to this mighty goddess, who also possessed the earliest temple at Olympia and two of the great fifth and sixth century temples of Paestum, the termagant of Homer and the myths is an " almost ... comic figure " according to Burkert.

The temples of Hera in the two main centers of her cult, the Heraion of Samos and the Heraion of Argos in the Argolid, were the very earliest monumental Greek temples constructed, in the 8th century BC.

One of the earliest coinage of jianghu was by a dejected poet Fan Zhongyan ( 989 — 1052 ) in the Song Dynasty in his poem Yueyang Lou Ji ( 岳阳楼记 ), in which the context of jianghu was set out as distant to the courts and temples, meaning a world in its own right.

The Khitan had their holiest Tengriist shrine on Mount Muye where portraits of their earliest ancestor Qishou Khagan, his wife Kedun and eight sons were kept in two temples.

Sumerian temples functioned as banks and developed the first large-scale system of loans and credit, but the Babylonians developed the earliest system of commercial banking.

Those of these sculptures that belonged to the temples within the walls, present a peculiar and archaic style of art, and are universally recognized as among the earliest extant specimens of Greek sculpture Those, on the contrary, which have been found among the ruins of the temple on the opposite hill, are of a later and more advanced style, though still retaining considerable remains of the stiffness of the earliest art.

During the Archaic ( please see Archaic Greece ) and early Classical periods ( about the 6th and early 5th centuries BCE ), the architectural forms of the earliest temples had solidified and the Doric ( see Classical order ) emerged as the predominant element.

The Etruscans in Italy were, from their earliest period, greatly influenced by their contact with Greek culture and religion, but they retained their wooden temples ( with some exceptions ) until their culture was completely absorbed into the Roman world, with the great wooden Temple of Jupiter on the Capitol in Rome itself being a good example.

Medang's religion centred on the Hindu god Shiva, and the kingdom produced some of Java's earliest Hindu temples on the Dieng Plateau.

Historians until recently agreed that before 3000 BC the political life of the city was headed by a priest-king ( ensi ) assisted by a council of elders and based on these temples, but some more recent authors have asserted that the cities had secular rulers from the earliest times.

* Uruk V-IV Late Uruk period ( 3400 – 3100 BC ); The earliest monumental temples of Eanna District are built.

The Roman kingdom's earliest shrines and temples were located on the southeastern edge.

The 5th century BC witnessed the construction of the earliest Forum temples with known dates of construction: the Temple of Saturn ( 497 BC ) and the Temple of Castor and Pollux ( 484 BC ).

These include Utug or Uhub, said to have defeated Hamazi in the earliest days, and Mesilim, who built temples in Adab and Lagash, where he seems to have exercised some control.

Indeed, the earliest Russian churches, built just after the Christianization of Kievan Rus ', were multi-domed, which has led some historians to speculate about how Russian pre-Christian pagan temples might have looked.

The earliest vaulted temples in Bagan date to the 11th century while the vaulting did not become widespread in India until the late 12th century.

It is one of the earliest Buddhist temples built entirely in brick that is still standing in India, from the late Gupta period.

Temple 17 is probably one of the earliest Buddhist temples as it dates to the early Gupta period.

The earliest of these temples is dated by Benard to the late 17th century.

Some of the earliest structures still extant in Japan are Buddhist temples established at this time.

The earliest finds of roof tiles in archaic Greece are documented from a very restricted area around Corinth ( Greece ), where fired tiles began to replace thatched roofs at two temples of Apollo and Poseidon between 700-650 BC.

Some of the earliest recordings, made in the 1940's demonstrated that psychiatrists reacted immediately to anger and anxiety in the sound track, whereas written records of the same interview offered far fewer cues to therapy which -- if they were at all discernible in print -- were picked up only by the most skilled and sensitive experts.

My own earliest memories are of exiles: my three brothers and I were taken often to the United States `` to visit relatives '' while my father stayed on to fight the dictator Machado.

The earliest amphibians evolved in the Devonian Period from sarcopterygian fish with lungs and bony-limbed fins, features that were helpful in adapting to dry land.

Scholars generally believe the earliest indigenous populations of Anatolia were the Hattians and Hurrians.

Some of the earliest attempts to apply scientific methods to the study of phenomena relating to an afterlife were conducted by this organization.

The earliest articles of faith were said to have been composed in the first century by the apostles themselves and sung publicly while on mission ( see Old Roman Symbol ).

In the earliest age of Christian monasticism the ascetics were accustomed to live singly, independent of one another, not far from some village church, supporting themselves by the labour of their own hands, and distributing the surplus after the supply of their own scanty wants to the poor.

The earliest anchors were probably rocks, and many rock anchors have been found dating from at least the Bronze Age.

The Germanics were in Germany and Scandinavia during earliest mention of them in Roman literature, long before the Romans had even conquered Italy.

His earliest writings were likely written in the 1150s, and probably in Paris.

His earliest years were passed in the monastery of Siresa, learning to read and write and to practice the military arts until the tuition of Lope Garcés the Pilgrim, who was repaid for his services by his former charge with the county of Pedrola when Alfonso came to the throne.

In the earliest days, the Diamondbacks operated basically as a subsidiary of the Suns ; several executives and managers with the Suns and America West Arena were brought over to the Diamondbacks in similar roles.

Native Americans were the earliest inhabitants of the land that is today known as the United States and played its first music.

Some of the earliest settlements were made on the slopes of Mount Benacantil.

Accounting is thousands of years old ; the earliest accounting records, which date back more than 7, 000 years, were found in Mesopotamia ( Assyrians ).

The earliest accounting records were found amongst the ruins of ancient Babylon, Assyria and Sumeria, which date back more than 7, 000 years.

Rise of the Triad and Marathon, both released on December 21, 1994, were the earliest first-person shooters to integrate dual wield pistols.

Among his earliest influences were Punch cartoonist – illustrator Phil May, and American comic strip cartoonists Tad Dorgan, Cliff Sterrett, Rube Goldberg, Rudolph Dirks, Fred Opper, Billy DeBeck, George McManus and Milt Gross.

The earlier date, 293, is sometimes assigned and apparently supported by the authority of a " Coptic Fragment " ( published by Dr. O. von Lemm among the Mémoires de l ' académie impériale des sciences de S. Péterbourg, 1888 ) and corroborated by the maturity revealed in his two earliest treatises Contra Gentes ( Against the Heathens ) and De Incarnatione ( On the Incarnation ), which were admittedly written about the year 318 before Arianism had begun to make itself felt, as those writings do not show an awareness of Arianism.

The earliest original writings in Coptic language were the letters by Saint Anthony.

The Herculoids, made up of Herc, Coke La Rock, and DJ Clark Kent, were the earliest to gain major fame.

The earliest beam bridges were simple logs that sat across streams and similar simple structures.

The earliest known arch bridges were built by the Greeks, and include the Arkadiko Bridge.

The earliest suspension bridges were made of ropes or vines covered with pieces of bamboo.