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.

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.

French archaeologist Ernest de Sarzec first discovered the remains of Girsu in 1877 and removed all the artifacts he could find, including a 4,000-year-old statue of the Sumerian king Gudea ...

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 ...

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 ...