After the Elamites shattered Ur, Mesopotamia splintered into rival kingdoms, ambitious warlords, and fragile survivor states fighting over the ruins of Sumer. This chapter follows Shamshi-Adad’s ...

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In ancient times, Mesopotamia, meaning 'land between two rivers', was a vast region that lay between the Tigris and Euphrates river systems, and it is where civilization emerged over 7,000 years ago.

Catalog of an exhibition held at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa, Malibu, from March 18-July 27, 2020. Translated and adapted from L'histoire commence en Mésopotamie, which was published ...

Recent events in Iraq, Iran, and Turkey recall ancient and equally dramatic events in Babylon and Mesopotamia, whose lands these countries now occupy. A magnificent storyteller and a careful historian ...

Q&A with Agnete Lassen, associate curator of the Yale Babylonian Collection. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Ancient Mesopotamia ...

A ziggurat (also spelled ziqqurat) was a raised platform with four sloping sides that looked like a tiered pyramid. Ziggurats were common in ancient Mesopotamia (roughly modern Iraq) from around 4,000 ...

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The Great Ziggurat of Ur dedicated to the Moon god. Ziggurats were massive structure typical for Mesopotamia. Sumerians believed that the gods lived in the temple at the top of the ziggurats. Woods ...

Rising from the plains of southern Iraq, the Great Ziggurat of Ur was built around 2050 BCE as a sacred link between heaven and earth. Dedicated to the moon god Nanna, it stood at the heart of one of ...

New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets with ancient cuneiform writing, a game board and large structural remains, ...

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