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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Rare stone carving depicting Assyrian king surrounded by gods unearthed - Stone engravings of deities from the Assyrian Empire have been rare ...

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 ...

Kings were described as serving heaven ... But it was in southern Mesopotamia that money became formalized as a measure of valuation, simultaneously for domestic agrarian and industrial exchange ...