Sumer
There are 53 items in Sumer:
The Great Flood: Comparison
The Great Flood: mythological story about a great destruction that once befell the earth. There are several variants; the Biblical version is the most famous. The possibility that there is a historical event behind the story (a local flood in southern Babylonia in the…
Girsu, Tablet with a fragment of the Sumerian Creation Epic |
Lagash, Vulture Stele, Sumerian phalanx |
London, British Museum
One of the largest museums in the world, with collections of Greek, Roman, British, Egyptian, Iranian, and Mesopotamian archaeology. There are 264 items in London, British Museum: …Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia: pseudo-ancient name for the country that is now known as Iraq. In Antiquity, it was not common to regard the five parts of this region as a unity. …Mesopotamian Chronicles
The Assyrian and Babylonian chronicles are historiographical texts from ancient Mesopotamia. Although they contain references to the earliest times, they deal especially with the second half of the second and the entire first millennium down to the first century BCE…Mesopotamian Chronicles (2)
The Assyrian and Babylonian chronicles are historiographical texts from ancient Mesopotamia. Although they contain references to the earliest times, they deal especially with the second half of the second and the entire first millennium down to the first century BCE.In…Mesopotamian Chronicles (content)
The Assyrian and Babylonian chronicles are historiographical texts from ancient Mesopotamia. Although they contain references to the earliest times, they deal especially with the second half of the second and the entire first millennium down to the first century BCE. There is more here.Mesopotamian Chronicles: Dictionary
The Assyrian and Babylonian chronicles are historiographical texts from ancient Mesopotamia. Although they contain references to the earliest times, they deal especially with the second half of the second millennium and the entire first millennium down to the first century BCE (cf. this table).Akkad Archaic name of…Mesopotamian Chronology
Mesopotamian Chronology: the chronology of ancient Babylonia, Assyria, and surrounding areas.General Ammisaduqa's Venus tablet Although humankind uses many calendars, it is easy…Nippur
Nippur: ancient Sumerian city, sanctuary of Enlil, modern Nuffar.Nippur Nippur, Temple platform Founded in the Chalcolithic Sumerian, famous for its sanctuary of the…
Nippur, Statuette of a lady (ED III) |