Mesopotamia Archive
Artifacts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Writing in Mesopotamia can be traced back to images created by ancient cylinder seals on clay tablets and other artifacts. A research team from
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Places
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - A legendary and magnificent civilization once thrived between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Widely regarded as one of the earliest civilizations in recorded
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - During previous excavations, archaeologists have found plenty of evidence that Babylonians and Sumerians were skilled astronomers. Sumerian cuneiform tablets confirm that knowledge of
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Ancient Technology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Sumerians were an advanced ancient civilization fully aware of the dangers climate can pose. They naturally knew there was no survival without water,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The development of the earliest cities in Mesopotamia and the Middle East led to a substantial increase in violence between inhabitants. Laws, centralized
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Birds were an important source of food for hunter-gatherer communities in Upper Mesopotamia at the beginning of the Neolithic period, around 9,000 years
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Modern Tello (Telloh) was an ancient Sumerian city of Girsu, located between the Tigris and Euphrates and about 20-25 kilometers north-northwest of Lagash
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Artifacts
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Recent research has hypothesized that the earliest evidence of human lip kissing originated in a very specific geographical location in South Asia 3,500
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd– AncientPages.com – It’s difficult to say where we can find traces of the world’s oldest civilization because many ancient underwater ruins still await our discovery. There
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - We tend to focus on ancient Sumerian inventions, their significant architectural accomplishments, and their vast scientific knowledge. Ancient Sumerian clay tablets are praised
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - 'Lamashtu Plaque' (or 'Hell Plaque') was an Assyrian healing device against the female demon Lamashtu and her evil doings. Lamashtu plaque held by
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ancient Sumerian city of Girsu, located between the Tigris and Euphrates, was once part of the Lagash city-state and a political and
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AncientPages.com - Adapting to technological advances is a defining part of 21st-century life. But it’s not unique to us: it’s been part of the human story since our
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Excvations in the ancient Mesopotamian city of Lagash continue, and archaeologists report they have unearthed a 5,000-year-old food tavern. A close-up of the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have previously discovered that the ancient Mesopotamian city of Lagash, which flourished nearly 5,000 years ago between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers,
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - More and more evidence confirms a very brave thesis: the Balkan Peninsula, rather than ancient Mesopotamia, is the cradle of our civilization. The
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The world's first urban state societies developed in Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq, some 5,500 years ago. No other artifact type is more symbolic of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Impressive drone footage has revealed an ancient Mesopotamian city known as Lagash challenges long-held ideas about the origin and development of the world’s
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - To learn more about the cradle of civilization, scientists rely on archaeology, ancient history, paleontology, and the study of DNA that help researchers
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AncientPages.com - Sexuality was central to life in ancient Mesopotamia, an area of the Ancient Near East often described as the cradle of western civilisation roughly corresponding to modern-day Iraq,
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Fingerprints have been a source of people's great fascination and can be traced back to ancient times. Handprints and fingerprints made by W.
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Even ordinary people were involved in the flourishing trade, and soon Lydia became one of antiquity's most prosperous kingdoms. Gold stater of Croesus.
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - For 4500 years, human life was controlled and even manipulated by money. Ever since ancient times, money has played a central role in
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of German and Kurdish archaeologists has uncovered a 3,400-year-old Mittani Empire-era city once located on the Tigris River. The settlement emerged
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Sirrush (Mushrush, Mushrushu) is a hybrid creature depicted on the Ishtar gate in Babylon. It resembles a dragon or a griffin, and it is the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While excavating near the ancient city of Uruk in Iraq, archaeologists successfully uncovered a very fragile, unique, well-preserved 4,000-year-old boat. According to the Sumerian
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Mesopotamia has long been regarded as the cradle of human civilization, and ruins of this important civilization are still being unearthed. Sumerians were
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Mesopotamia and the Indus civilization were both urban civilizations with large, densely populated and planned cities, 6000–1990 BCE. A new thesis in archaeology points
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Rutgers researchers have unearthed the earliest definitive evidence of broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) in ancient Iraq, challenging our understanding of humanity's earliest agricultural
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Babylonian mythology, Irkalla was the underworld from which there was no return. The realm of the dead or the lower world was
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Dreams have always been of interest to ancient cultures. Our ancestors often believed dreams could foretell the future, and it was essential to
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Today, all we know about the ancient city of Ur comes from the written documents unearthed at Ur. The people of Mesopotamia, which
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Old Testament mentions the city Uruk as Erech, and its original Sumerian name is Unug. What we know today about Uruk comes
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The goddess of the ancient Sumerian city of Uruk is known as Inanna. She is frequently mentioned in academic literature. During the early
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Mesopotamia is today widely accepted as the cradle of civilization, and there is scientific evidence ancient Sumerians changed the world in many ways.
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - We have seen countless examples confirming what many long suspected: ancient people were much more advanced than previously thought. Sumerians, Babylonians and the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - During the Bronze Age, Mesopotamia was witness to several climate crises. In the long run, these crises prompted the development of stable forms of
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The ancient civilization of the Sumer still hides many secrets. Representatives of this unique culture left behind many art pieces, pottery, writing hydraulic
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Artifacts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Though the exact number is unknown, authorities estimate tens or even hundreds of thousands of Sumerian artifacts have been stolen from Iraq’s museums
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Lugalzagesi was a Sumerian king who reigned c. 2341 BC - 2316 BC and lived in the mid-fourteenth century BC. According to his
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A.Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In 2334 BC, Sargon became the first emperor in the history of the world. Most probably, his great Akkadian kingdom was not a new
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