His name meant “true king,” and Sargon of Akkad (unknown–2279 B.C.) took advantage of that presumed legitimacy to establish the world’s first empire around 2330 B.C. in Mesopotamia ...

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 ...

Divine sex was not the sole preserve of the gods, but could also involve the human king. Few topics from Mesopotamia have captured the imagination as much as the concept of sacred marriage.

Mesopotamia refers to a broad area that can ... One ziggurat, dedicated to the god Marduk and built by Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II around 2,500 years ago, may have inspired the biblical ...

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.

In the ruins of the ancient Assyrian metropolis Nineveh, in modern Iraq, researchers have unearthed a rare artifact: a massive stone relief depicting important deities and Ashurbanipal, the last great ...

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 ...

Nebuchadnezzar II, also known as Nebuchadnezzar the Great, was one of the longest-reigning kings of Mesopotamia who oversaw the construction of Babylon. By creating a map of historic magnetic fiel ...

A former tavern-keeper (a respectable occupation in Sumer), she is said to have ruled for a century and is the only woman to be referred to as king rather than queen consort in the Sumerian King List.

Within the project, the internal and external interdependences and cooperations of the cultic-religious institutions of Mesopotamia (temples with their respective production, supply and distribution ...