Mesopotamia Archive
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - We tend to focus on ancient Sumerian inventions, their significant architectural accomplishments, along with their vast knowledge in science. Ancient Sumerian clay tablets
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Lugalzagesi, who reigned c. 2341 BC - 2316 BC and lived in the mid-fourteenth century BC, was a Sumerian king who came to
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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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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Mesopotamian (Babylonian-Akkadian) beliefs, Adad was a god of atmospheric phenomena. He mastered and controlled rains and floods, thunder, lightning, and storms. His
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Ancient Places
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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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Assyriologists have identified around twenty central provinces, and much we know today about Sumer originate from archives related to the sites of Girsu
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Ancient Places
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com - Most scholars agree the ancient Sumerians were the earliest developed civilization in our recorded history. Mesopotamia is therefore often characterized as the cradle
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Ancient History Facts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - After many successful campaigns in the region of the Levant (of today’s Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, and Palestine), Nebuchadnezzar suffered a heavy defeat
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Systematic observations of the sky were carried out by Babylonians, living in the areas of southern Mesopotamia, in the middle of the third
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A decision to deliberately destroy a 12,000-year-old Mesopotamian city has sparked outrage and controversy. Hasankeyf, located on the banks of the Tigris River
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Artifacts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - This unusual figure is unique in a number of ways. It represents a winged half-human and half-animal creature credited with supernatural powers. It
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Civilizations
AncientPages.com - Gol-e-Zard Cave lies in the shadow of Mount Damavand, which at more than 5,000 metres dominates the landscape of northern Iran. In this cave, stalagmites and
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Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In 1969, members of the German Warka expedition discovered an ancient damaged clay tablet in Uruk, the first city built by Gilgamesh about
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Ancient Places
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – What many people think should have happened long ago, has now happened, but it's better late than never. The ancient city of Babylon
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Ancient Places
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The beginnings of the city of Ashur, (also known as Assur) date back to the third millennium. The city was located about sixty
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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
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David Tee - AncientPages.com - Even though his true name, Sarru-kinnu, meant ‘true king’, he took the name Sargon when he ascended the throne. Why he did this
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Kids will be kids, no matter what country, place or time. Some things are ageless and never go out of fashion. Many modern
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Ancient Traditions And Customs
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Women have always highly regarded lipstick as the basic and most popular beauty tool of all time. Millennia ago, it covered up the imperfections
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In the Sumerian mythology, Nammu (Namma) was "primeval sea" - the ultimate origin of all things. The goddess Nammu gave birth to the heavens,
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Shulgi (2095-2048 BC was a founder of the Third Dynasty of Ur, the son of Ur-Nammu and successor. During his long (48-year) reign,
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Ancient Symbols
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - From very ancient times, the winged sun disk is found in many cultures all over the world. As one of the oldest religious and
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Ninkasi was a Sumerian goddess of beer and alcohol worshiped in Mesopotamia, an area between the large rivers known as Tigris and Euphrates, that
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - If you are looking for a long-lost ancient queen this latest discovery shows, there is no need to go far. You can find one
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Ancient Places
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - King Nebuchadnezzar II (c. 605 BC – c. 562 BC), the greatest ruler of the of the Neo-Babylonian Empire had no intention of letting enemies
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The relief plaques - very popular in the Sumerian society - were often covered with inscriptions and were dedicated to the gods by individual
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Ancient History Facts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - A roughly 5,000-year-old cuneiform stone tablet, in possession of the British Museum in London shows how workers were paid their daily rations in
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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 also
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Ancient Places
David Tee - AncientPages.com - Gezer is mentioned in 5 books of the Bible. Its importance was not lost on the biblical writers as the city once had a
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - This amazing lioness-woman sculpture is considered one of the oldest artifacts of Mesopotamia. The so-called 'Guennol Lioness' is believed to have been created
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Nabu was one of the most important Babylonian-Assyrian gods, but he earned his importance much later in the first millennium BC. There was a
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - These remarkable statues with over-seized eyes raise some very intriguing questions. Why have no similar eye idols been found in any other region? Who were
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Traditionally, it was widely believed that beer in Mesopotamia was consumed communally from large jars using long, bendy straws. A new research indicates that by 1400 BC
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - If you think going to a dentist is an awful thing, be thankful you didn’t live thousands of years ago. Our ancestors understood
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Sumerian pantheon included many deities but initially, the most important of them were Anu, Enlil, Enki and Ninhursag. In this article, we present
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