Crowned Hero Grasping Bull; Nude Bearded Hero Holding Human-Headed Bulls Cylinder seal and impression Mesopotamia, Akkadian period (ca....

Bull Men Contesting with Lions Cylinder seal and impression Mesopotamia, Akkadian period (ca. 2334–2154 B.C.) Marble 28 x 26 (25) mm...

Stone Bowl With a Dedication Inscription in Sumerian Inscribed: (To) [a deity], Megirimta, child born to Lugal-kisalsi (and) wife of...

With the empire rising, the Akkadian king became stronger from his city-state elite, in which mainly the priesthood had great influence...

Hammurabi (also known as Khammurabi  and Ammurapi, reigned 1792-1750 BCE) was the sixth king of the AmoriteFirst Dynasty of Babylon,...

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...

Among the many contributions to world culture credited to Mesopotamia is an object so familiar to people in the modern world that few...

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,...

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...

Enheduanna (2285-2250 BCE) is the world’s first author and was the daughter (either literally or figuratively) of the great...

The Atrahasis is the Akkadian/Babylonian epic of the Great Flood sent by the gods to destroy human life. Only the good man, Atrahasis...

The Hymn to Ninkasi is at once a song of praise to Ninkasi, the Sumerian goddess of beer, and an ancient recipe for brewing. Written down...

The Ludlul-Bel-Nimeqi is a Babylonian poem which chronicles the lament of a good man suffering undeservedly. Also known as `The Poem of...

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...

The gods of the Mesopotamian region were by no means uniform in name, power, provenance or status in the hierarchy. Mesopotamian culture...

The Epic of Gilgamesh was originally a Sumerian poem, later translated into Akkadian, and first written down some 700 – 1000 years after...

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

The Akkadian/Sumerian poet Enheduanna (2285-2250 BCE) is the world’s first author known by name and was the daughter of Sargon of Akkad...

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

Literature (from the Latin Littera meaning 'letters’ and referring to an acquaintance with the written word) is the written work of a...