This statue covered in gold leaf and semiprecious stones may have been used in ancient Mesopotamian sunrise rituals.

Ancient kingdoms ... drew maps of canals, and kept meticulous accounts of livestock, fish, barley, cloth, gems and beer.

The book offers a useful timeline, though pictures of the ten ancient items and a map would have ... picture of ancient Mesopotamia. She notes the difficulties of learning Sumerian, the world ...

In southern Iraq, archaeologists have excavated a remarkable collection of carved clay tablets—ancient records ... by conquering all the Sumerian cities of Mesopotamia, creating what most ...

While the texts may not be great masterpieces of Sumerian literature, like the Epic of Gilgamesh, the British Museum’s curator for ancient Mesopotamia ... field plans and maps of canals.

The tombs were the work of the ancient culture of ... Murder in Mesopotamia. Archaeologists believe spears and axes, not daggers, were Sumerian soldiers' primary weapons. Gold dagger with lapis ...

A new and spellbinding book tells the history of the very ancient past of Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris. Between Two Rivers by Moudhy Al-Rashid, a researcher at the ...

THE great and inventive people who settled 5,500 years ago in Mesopotamia ... come to know the Sumerians with any thoroughness, chipping away at the sites of such ancient city-states as Ur ...

The discoveries shed new light on life in ancient Mesopotamia ... The area has been inhabited since 4800 B.C.E. when Mesopotamia was home to the Sumerians – one of the world’s first major ...

A walk through of Ancient Mesopotamia in story form. Collapse: Poll Delivers Blow to Trump Liv And Mia Tyler Recall Discovering They Were Sisters At Aerosmith Concert Bill Gates says AI is coming ...

Copper Sculpture from Ancient Mesopotamia, ca. 3300-2000 BC. The Sumerian statue’s repatriation to Iraq comes as the Met redoubles its efforts to investigate provenance issues in its collection.

2,900–2,600 BCE), Sumerian, copper alloy (image courtesy ... depict offerings being delivered to a temple. Each city in Ancient Mesopotamia had a religious site dedicated to the locale’s ...