according to the Sumerian King List, the oldest city in history. The mound that housed ancient Eridu was identified in 1855 by British archaeologist John George Taylor, who conducted the initial ...

from circa 2500 B.C. These cities were ruled by kings, whose names might have been forgotten were it not for the discovery of the Sumerian King List. Copies of the list have been found on 16 ...

The king also had a northern palace ... Religious Continuity and Royal Legitimation in Mesopotamia" (Gorgias Press, 2004). Although largely destroyed today, in ancient times the ziggurat of ...

In the ruins of the ancient Assyrian metropolis Nineveh, in modern Iraq, researchers have unearthed a rare artifact: a ...

Around 2112 B.C., the Sumerian king Ur-Namma (r. 2112–2095 B.C.) united the city-states of southern Mesopotamia into a short-lived kingdom known today as the Third Dynasty of Ur, or Ur III.

Idealism, a hunger for power and a wish to prosper have driven some of the earliest efforts to build a world order.

as noted in the Sumerian King List. Inhabited from the sixth to the first millennium BCE, the city preserves one of the oldest and best-preserved irrigation networks in Mesopotamia. The irrigation ...

This is the first time that major deities have been found depicted on a relief from an ancient Assyrian palace.

My King, something has been created that no one had ever created before!” In ancient Mesopotamia, Enheduanna’s works were celebrated, and were even part of the curriculum in the edubbas ...

Archaeologists working in the ancient city of Nineveh—now Mosul, Iraq—have unearthed a gigantic statue depicting King ...