Delve into the rich and complex history of Babylon, a city whose legacy shaped the course of Mesopotamian civilization for ...

This Mesopotamian "Head of a Ruler" is among the works in the "Art of First Cities" exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The head, made of copper alloy, came from the same region ...

Step back in time to explore one of the world’s earliest and most influential civilizations: Ancient Mesopotamia. What was ...

Object Details author Bahrani, Zainab 1962- Summary This book is the first in ten years to present a comprehensive survey of art and architecture in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq, northeast Syria and ...

Tides, rivers, and shifting coasts shaped Sumer, the world’s first urban society - offering lessons for today’s climate ...

Historian Selena Wisnom reveals how the ancient Assyrians of Mesopotamia used ‘godnapping’ as a devastating form of ...

"Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia" at the Morgan Library and Museum tells the story of history's first women author.

Mesopotamia Show at the Getty Teaches History, with Style Wall Panel with a Striding Lion, neo-Babylonian period 605–562 B.C. Glazed brick.

Its major publication list contains books in theology, philosophy, ethics, classical studies, archaeology, history of art, medieval studies, oriental studies, linguistics and literature. Peeters ...

About 4,500 years ago, an image of the Sumerian storm god Ningirsu was engraved on a silver vessel now on view in the Getty Villa Museum exhibition “Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins ...