Bull Men Contesting with Lions # Kingdoms of Sumeria
Bull Men Contesting with Lions Cylinder seal and impression Mesopotamia, Akkadian period (ca. 2334–2154 B.C.) Marble 28 x 26 (25) mm...
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Ryan Moorhen
Feb 1, 20181 min read
Stone Bowl With a Dedication Inscription in Sumerian
Stone Bowl With a Dedication Inscription in Sumerian Inscribed: (To) [a deity], Megirimta, child born to Lugal-kisalsi (and) wife of...
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Ryan Moorhen
Jan 25, 201811 min read
Hammurabi #Kingdoms of Sumeria
Hammurabi (also known as Khammurabi and Ammurapi, reigned 1792-1750 BCE) was the sixth king of the AmoriteFirst Dynasty of Babylon,...
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Ryan Moorhen
Jan 25, 20186 min read
Sumerian Civilization: Inventing the Future
Imagine something that has never been thought of before. If one holds a book in one’s hands, one can imagine an e-book, a large-print...
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Ryan Moorhen
Jan 18, 201810 min read
Dogs in Ancient Mesopotamia
Among the many contributions to world culture credited to Mesopotamia is an object so familiar to people in the modern world that few...
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Ryan Moorhen
Jan 18, 20188 min read
Enki in Ancient Literature
Enki is a god of Sumerian mythology and, later in time, known as Ea in Babylonian mythology. He was the deity of sweet water, crafts,...
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Ryan Moorhen
Jan 18, 20188 min read
Mesopotamia: The Rise of the Cities
Once upon a time, in the land known as Sumer, the people built a temple to their god who had conquered the forces of chaos and brought...
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Ryan Moorhen
Jan 18, 20184 min read
The Atrahasis Epic: The Great Flood & the Meaning of Suffering
The Atrahasis is the Akkadian/Babylonian epic of the Great Flood sent by the gods to destroy human life. Only the good man, Atrahasis...
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Ryan Moorhen
Jan 18, 20189 min read
The Queen of the Night
The Queen of the Night (also known as the `Burney Relief’) is a high relief terracotta plaque of baked clay, measuring 19.4 inches (49.5...
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Ryan Moorhen
Jan 17, 201831 min read
The Mesopotamian Pantheon
The gods of the Mesopotamian region were by no means uniform in name, power, provenance or status in the hierarchy. Mesopotamian culture...
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Ryan Moorhen
Jan 17, 20182 min read
Ancient Mesopotamia: Inventing Our World
Three successive civilizations — Sumerian, Babylonian, and Assyrian — flourished along the “Fertile Crescent” in ancient Mesopotamia for...
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Ryan Moorhen
Jan 17, 201813 min read
Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia (from the Greek, meaning 'between two rivers’) was an ancient region in the eastern Mediterranean bounded in the northeast by...
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Ryan Moorhen
Jan 17, 20184 min read
Mesopotamian Literature
Literature (from the Latin Littera meaning 'letters’ and referring to an acquaintance with the written word) is the written work of a...
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Ryan Moorhen
Jan 17, 20187 min read
Ur-Nammu
📷 Ur-Nammu (reigned 2047-2030 BCE) was the founder of the Third Dynasty of Ur in Sumer who initiated the so-called Ur III Period...
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Ryan Moorhen
Jan 16, 20184 min read
Gilgamesh / King of Uruk
Gilgamesh is the semi-mythic King of Uruk best known from The Epic of Gilgamesh (written c. 2150-1400 BCE) the great Sumerian/Babylonian...
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Ryan Moorhen
Jan 16, 20187 min read
Syria & the Empires of Mesopotamia
Syria is a country located in the Middle East on the shore of Mediterranean Sea and bordered, from the north down to the west, by Turkey,...
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