AnuZigguratUruk #WarkaIraq #WhiteTemple Explore Mesopotamia some 6000 years ago, where one of the cradles of civilization and ...

Beneath the rugged mountains of southeastern Iran, archaeologists are carefully unearthing traces of a Bronze Age society ...

In the Mesopotamian world ... conquered Lagash and other cities around 2080 b.c. Gudea, a pious leader and temple builder who ruled Lagash shortly before its fall, is memorialized as an architect ...

Within the project, the internal and external interdependences and cooperations of the cultic-religious institutions of Mesopotamia (temples with their respective production, supply and distribution ...

Italian Mesopotamian historian Mario Liverani writes that Eridu’s temples were “reconstructed and expanded after each collapse, and their remains formed a raised platform on which new temples ...

That enabled Mesopotamian rule to be personal and indeed ... In both cases, the palace and temples played a key role. A standardized measure of value was needed for the economy’s own industrial ...

The temple is thought to have been razed by fire ... Assyria was a major civilization of ancient Mesopotamia—a historic region centered on modern-day Iraq. During this year's excavations ...