I:192. As to the resources of the Babylonians how great they are, I shall show by many other proofs and among them also by this: For the...

A Winged Hero Contesting with a Lion for a Bull Cylinder seal and impression Mesopotamia, Neo-Babylonian periodca.1000–539...

Goddess with Ring and Scimitar on Star-Studded Throne over Lion (?); Worshiper Facing Armed God Standing on Bull Cylinder seal and...

I was taking photos in the main hall of the Sulaymaniyah Museum and came across a display case containing a small clay tablet. The...

Three successive civilizations — Sumerian, Babylonian, and Assyrian — flourished along the “Fertile Crescent” in ancient Mesopotamia for...

Mesopotamia (from the Greek, meaning 'between two rivers’) was an ancient region in the eastern Mediterranean bounded in the northeast by...

In ancient Mesopotamia, the meaning of life was for one to live in concert with the gods. Humans were created as co-laborers with their...

Nabu (sometimes known as Tutu) is the Babylonian god of wisdom, learning, prophecy, scribes, and writing and was also responsible for the...

Nergal (also known as Erra and Irra) is the Mesopotamian god of death, war, and destruction. He began as a regional, probably...

Bull with wings.Mesopotamia,500 b.C.

Archer Attacking a Lion Griffin, Tree with Winged Sun Disk Above Cylinder seal and impression Mesopotamia, Neo-Assyrian period...

Griffin Fighting Griffin Demon Armed with Dagger for Small Calf Below Cylinder seal Mesopotamia, Middle Assyrian period (ca....

Winged Lion Griffin Attacked by Hero over Kneeling Calf Cylinder seal Mesopotamia, Middle Assyrian period (ca. twelfth/eleventh century...

Griffin Demon Tearing Branch from Tree Cylinder seal and impression Mesopotamia, Middle Assyrian period (ca. twelfth/eleventh century...

Ashurbanipal (668-627 BCE, also known as Assurbanipal) was the last of the great kings of Assyria. His name means "the god Ashur is...

Script is any particular system of writing or the written means of human communication. In the West, writing begins in Sumeria over 4,000...

Lugal-Dalu was probably a local ruler of Adab. The inscriptions on the statue's right shoulder describe the depicted man as "king of...

A pair of golden earrings with the shape of a half pumpkin. The overlying decorative cuneiform inscriptions mention that these earrings...

A Winged Hero Pursuing Two Ostriches Cylinder seal and impression Inscription abraded in antiquity. Mesopotamia, Middle Assyrian period...

Lion Attacking Stag Before Tree on Mountain Mesopotamia, Middle Assyrian period(ca. thirteenth century B.C.)Chert 30 x 13 mm Seal no. 603...