A measuring weight carved from hematite in the shape of a stylized duck, its long neck turned across its back, the head resting flat in...

The Enuma Elish (also known as The Seven Tablets of Creation) is the Mesopotamian creation myth whose title is derived from the opening...

Tablet Inscribed in Babylonian with a Ritual for the Observances of Eclipses Mesopotamia, seleucid period(ca. third-first century...

Eye Stone Amulet with a Dedication Inscription of King Nebuchadnezzar II in Akkadian Inscribed: To Marduk, his lord, Nebuchadnezzar, king...

Hero Grasping Two Struggling Birds and Stepping on a Third Bird Cylinder seal and impression Mesopotamia, Neo-Babylonian...

Hero Grasping Two Male Sphinxes Cylinder seal and impression Mesopotamia, Neo-Babylonian period(ca.1000–539 B.C.)Siliceous stone33 x 16...

Centaur with a Bow and Arrow Attacking Winged Lion Cylinder seal and impression Mesopotamia, Neo-Babylonian period(ca.1000–539...

Attendant Waving Palm Whisk over Table Before Seated King Raising Cup, Attendant with Fan and Towel Behind King Cylinder seal and...

The Cyrus Cylinder is a document issued by Cyrus the Great, consisting of a cylinder of clay inscribed in Akkadian cuneiform script. The...

Armed Hero Grasping Kicking Ostrich; Worshiper Behind Two Fish Men with Pollen Baskets Flanking Sacred Tree; God in Winged Sun Disk Above...

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...

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...

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...