Introduction : becoming art -- The search for Origins : Mesopotamia and the cradle of civilization -- Uruk : the arts of civilization -- Early Dynastic Sumer : images for people, temples for gods -- ...

THE great and inventive people who settled 5,500 years ago in Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates (now part of Iraq), founded one of the world’s first major civilizations.

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. The ...

Assyrian cylinder seal from the late ninth to seventh centuries B.C.E., made of chalcedony and inscribed with a cultic scene. The image on the right shows the impression the seal would make. Gift of ...

“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 present-day Iraq.

The National Museum of Korea has set up its Mesopotamian Gallery and presents the exhibition "Mesopotamia: Great Cultural Innovations, Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art." As the first ...

When it comes to the popularity of ancient civilizations of the pre-Greco-Roman variety, Egypt rules among the North American public. Ancient Egypt has labyrinthine tombs, pyramids and mummies, The ...

In ancient times, Mesopotamia, meaning 'land between two rivers', was a vast region that lay between the Tigris and Euphrates river systems, and it is where civilization emerged over 7,000 years ago.

Long, long ago and far, far away in a country called Mesopotamia (meaning “land between rivers”) many aspects of civilization as we know it today took shape. That crescent between the Tigris and ...

In their paper, “Exploring Geomagnetic Variations in Ancient Mesopotamia,” researchers Matthew D. Howland, Lisa Tauxu, Shai Gordin, and Erez Ben-Yosef studied 32 bricks currently held in the Slemani ...