Foundation Figure of a Kneeling God Holding a Peg Mesopotamia, period of Gudea (ca. 2144–2124 B.C.)Copper Height: ca. 19.5 cm Purchase AZ...

Water God Facing Deity; God with a Mace and Lion-Headed Eagles Attacking Fallen God Cylinder seal and impression Mesopotamia, Akkadian...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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

📷 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...

Gilgamesh is the semi-mythic King of Uruk best known from The Epic of Gilgamesh (written c. 2150-1400 BCE) the great Sumerian/Babylonian...

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,...