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Richly illustrated with more than 400 full-color photographs, Art of Mesopotamia is an astounding record by award-winning author Zainab Bahrani of artworks from this region, many of which have in ...
MESOPOTAMIAN ART UNEARTHED. Polish archeologists working in Iraq are reported to have unearthed five stone sculptures created by humans who roamed the banks of the Tigris River 10,000 years ago.
As the art world unites to promote international efforts to recover Iraqi antiquities, Art of the First Cities serves as a timely reminder of the importance of Mesopotamia.
Just when much of the world is mourning the wartime looting of precious art from Iraqi museums, the Metropolitan Museum has opened an exhibition of more than 400 rare and exquisite artifacts ...
“Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. From the Mediterranean to the Indus” examines the flowering of the world’s earliest civilizations in Mesopotamia, which is pres… ...
By studying the iron oxide embedded in ancient bricks from Mesopotamia, archaeologists have confirmed the existence of a planetary anomaly that happened during the Levantine Iron Age around 3,000 ...
"Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia" at the Morgan Library and Museum tells the story of history's first women author.
The villa's Mesopotamian art exhibit, titled Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins,'' was slated to open a few days after the venue was forced to close due to the pandemic.