The Kingdoms of Israel and Judah in the mid-800s B.C. 14 (34) Language Families of the Ancient Near East 48 (25) Price of Goods During the Old Babylonian Empire 73 (21) Mesopotamia 94 (65) Staff of the Temple at Nippur 159 (13) The Persian Empire 172 (13) Trading Empire of the Phoenicians, First Millennium B.C. 185