So I’ve decided that I will be dedicating two blog posts to Near Eastern art. Today’s blog post will be focusing on Sumerian Art (4000-2000 B.C.) and the other blog post will focus on Babylonian art.

4,000-Year-Old Clay Tablets Show Ancient Sumerians' Obsession ... “Sargon developed this new form of governance by conquering all the Sumerian cities of Mesopotamia, ... maps of canals and ...

A map of the ancient city of Nippur, created around 1500 B.C. ... Uniting Akkad with Sumer as part of his conquest of Mesopotamia, Sargon forged history’s first multinational empire.

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

In about 4000 B.C. the Sumerians were the first known civilization to arise in the region, and are named after the ancient city of Sumer, ... A map of Mesopotamia (shown in pink).

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 ...

Learn more about life in Ancient Sumer in this BBC Bitesize year 5/6 history guide. BBC Homepage. ... Ancient Sumer was in the southern part of a place called Mesopotamia.

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a 4,500-year-old Sumerian temple at the heart of the ancient city of Girsu, in southeastern Iraq. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

In fact, long before the Ancient Greeks built their citadels and set out on heroic expeditions across the Mediterranean, long before the glory of the pharaohs, the region of Mesopotamia, between the ...

It encompassed different peoples and empires such as the Sumerians, the Akkadians, the Babylonians, and Assyrians, who controlled Mesopotamia over millennia, building and expanding glorious cities ...