Mesopotamia Archive
Archaeology
AncientPages.com - About a year ago (summer 2017), archaeologists from Tübingen’s Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies found 92 Assyrian cuneiform tablets, hidden in a pottery vessel and wrapped
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - We may think we know a lot about ancient religious beliefs practiced in Mesopotamia, but when we investigate certain sacred ancient texts it
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have unearthed the ruins of a 4,000-year-old Sumerian port in Mesopotamia, modern Iraq. It’s a major discovery that could shed more light on the great climate
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Ancient History Facts
AncientPages.com - Kilns have been used since very ancient time to turn objects made from clay into pottery, tiles and bricks. A kiln is an oven or furnace or a
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Who made these remarkable huge animal sculptures? What tools did our ancestors use? Could this be the work of an ancient lost Sahara civilization? Located at the
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPage.com - In northern Sardinia, Italy there is an intriguing ancient site known as Monte d’Accoddi. Here, we come across a large ancient structure that reminds
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In the foothills of Turkish Kurdistan, in eastern Anatolia, there is an unusual tribe called Alevi. The mysterious Alevi do not only differ in
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The history of Mari is rather obscure, but it is known that it was an ancient kingdom and an important political and commercial center
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Ancient Traditions And Customs
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Have you ever wondered how our ancestors celebrated New Year's Eve worldwide? The history of New Year celebrations goes back to ancient times,
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Ancient Technology
AncientPages.com - A huge ancient hydraulic system discovered in China may be the world’s oldest and predate Mesopotamian water systems. Ancient skilled Mesopotamian engineers constructed sophisticated water systems around
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Egyptian Mythology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The horned serpent is a very interesting creature, not only because we know relatively little about it, but because it appears in ancient stories
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Medicine has a long history in the Middle and Near East. The earliest known medical records go back to the ancient Mesopotamia and begin
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have a made a sensational find that could re-write our ancient history. A huge cuneiform archive consisting of 93 ancient clay tablets was unearthed on in
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In 1881, an intriguing artifact known as the "stone club head of Mesilim" was unearthed at Tall Luh (Tello) site, covering the ruins
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - The location of Alexander the Great’s city has been an unsolved mystery for 2,000 years. Now, archaeologists report they have uncovered the lost city of Alexander the
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Ancient History Facts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - When the Sumerian civilization began to flourish, also daily life in Mesopotamia began to change. New cities and large towns created new possibilities
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - Ancient Pages.com - Ancient Adab (now Bismaya, Iraq) was an important early ancient Sumerian city, probably the main seat of the goddess Ninhursag, the fourth of
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - As Ancient Pages previously reported, Polish archaeologists announced in June 2017, they had found an ancient city in northern Mesopotamia – present day Iraqi Kurdistan, but the name
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Artifacts
AncientPages.com - About 5,000 years ago, people in Mesopotamia used intriguing clay tokens of multiple shapes to count and communicate. People recorded information about their agricultural goods--including domestic animals and plants
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Ancient Traditions And Customs
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Not only Vikings had berserkers. The berserkers among Viking warriors had more or less their counterparts in other regions of Europe and outside
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - More than 200 previously unknown remains of villages and an ancient city have been discovered by Polish archaeologists excavating in northern Mesopotamia - present day Iraqi Kurdistan. Most
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Mighty and robust bearded warrior Gilgamesh is remembered as semi-divine King of the Babylonian epic Gilgamesh. The greatest hero of Mesopotamia is believed to
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Biblical Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Garden of Eden is one of many Biblical mysteries. If the legendary paradise existed, we would all like to know where it was
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Historical Figures
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Ancient Babylon was home to some powerful dynasties and rulers. Hammurabi. Image credit: Windu1789 - CC BY-SA 4.0 One of them was Hammurabi,
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Our knowledge about the Mesopotamian afterlife beliefs comes from literary texts recorded on cuneiform clay tablets and most of this material is Sumerian. According
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Archaeology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Researchers have deciphered an ancient tablet believed to depict the Biblical Tower of Babel that stood in Babylon during Biblical times. The tablet,
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - EN.KI ("Lord of Earth"), was the Sumerian water god of Eridu, located in the southern wetlands of what is today Iraq. He was also
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - A Sumerian epic poem entitled "Inanna and Enki" says that the art of writing was among many essential elements of civilization, transferred from Eridu, the City
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Indus Valley civilization, also called the Harappan civilization was one of the world’s largest and oldest civilization. The Indus Valley people built
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - "Many texts from ancient Mesopotamia contain colourful descriptions of wars and other physical atrocities, such as mass beheadings or stripping the skin. Meanwhile, bioarchaeology research paints the
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Ancient Sumer had a very complex pantheon of gods and goddesses, but four of these powerful figures played an important role because they were
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In “Sumerian Art”, R.D. Barnett mentions that a Foundation Tablet with the inscription: “Aanepada king of Ur, son of Mesannepada (Mes-ane-pada), has built a
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Jemdet Nasr - related to the Jemdet Nasr period (3100–2900 BC) - was a small but important prehistoric settlement in southern Mesopotamia, what
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Ancient History Facts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Copper was used by several ancient civilizations for a number of reasons. It was the first metal ever used by ancient man, dating
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Famed “Mask of Warka” also known as the "Lady of Uruk" (due to its resemblance to the Sumerian goddess Inanna) is dated to
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