Gudea, a Sumerian king who ruled the Sumerian city-state of Lagash between 2140 and 2120 BC, has been the subject of many statues, but...

There are very few women in ancient history who made their mark on the world with the full moral support of their fathers. Sargon the...

Ashurbanipal, portrayed as a priest. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Assurbanipal_als_hogepriester.jpg) He looks the most...

As part of “The Mesopotamians” band he is the lead singer with sharply side-swept hair, one visible eye, and a ring in his lower lip....

You saw him in the video wearing a helmet, playing bass guitar and grinning at the end with bugs crawling all over his teeth…he is...

Since I try to keep things fun around here, even though it doesn’t seem like it at first glance (I wrote about asphalt!), I thought I’d...

“During the burial of a king in the Royal Tombs of Ur, men and women were sacrificed to be the servants of royalty in the afterlife. They...

We’re in the homestretch, and gift-giving season is zipping by, so I thought I’d whip up a gift guide for that Mesopotamianiac in your...

Walls of Babylon. (Source) Babylon is a name we hear often, in everything from biblical discussions to reggae song lyrics. Although it is...

One of the most heartwarming things to read about while I prepare posts for this blog is when I read about individuals and organizations...

King Sennacherib profile. (Source) And we continue with the story of Sennacherib, the Assyrian king, who made Nineveh his capital and...

When the Baghdad Museum was looted and vandalized in April 2003, most of us could only stand by and watch in horror as part of the...

The Royal Game of Ur, housed and on display at the British Museum. (Source) Okay, so I have an iPod Touch, and I’ve filled it with game...

If you like a good mystery and if you’ve been swept up into the hullabaloo of the authenticity of Shakespeare’s works as a result of the...

Maybe you know that it is where the best-preserved zigurrat, which is one of the most famous historical monuments in the world, stands....

We all know about hieroglyphics and Egyptology, but very few of us know about even the existence of Assyriology, or the fact that there...