Ancient Mesopotamia is the country now called Iraq. Its northern part, down to an imaginary line running east-west slightly north of modern Baghdad, constituted ancient Assyria, with the cities of Ashur (modern Qalʾat Shergat), which was the old...

The Priest-King. Urbanism began in Mesopotamia at the end of the fourth millennium B.C.E. At Uruk, the largest city in Mesopotamia, two great temples dominated the region. It has been proposed that the temple was at the center of a redistributive...

First Cities. Mesopotamia (ancient Iraq) was the setting for humankind's earliest complex civilization. Among the many ways by which social scientists measure civilization are the presence of political and social organizations such as government and...

Visual Arts and Architecture. The surviving artworks of Mesopotamia relate largely to royalty, especially the male ruler, or to wealthier members of the community. These elements of Mesopotamian culture include not only sculpture and painting but also...

Mesopotamia (from the Greek meaning 'between two rivers')[1] was a cradle of civilization geographically located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, largely corresponding to modern-day Iraq[1][2][3]...

MARK W. CHAVALAS and K. LAWSON YOUNGER, JR., Mesopotamia and the Bible (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2002). Pp. 395. Paper $29.99. This volume constitutes the revised and enlarged proceedings of a double panel held at the 1995 meeting of the Near East Archaeological Society....

Iraq's antiquities were looted mostly by professional thieves, not by random hooligans. Archaeological sites are still imperiled by looters, as well as by hastily planned reconstruction. Standing in the storerooms of the Iraq National Museum one morning last summer, I found myself surrounded...

Isaac Samow's Assyrian Christian ancestors have occupied Mesopotamia for millennia, surviving innumerable conquests and massacres.Now war is again threatening Assyrian culture and language in its native land.Thousands of Assyrians have fled Iraq since the U.S. invasion. Samow's relatives are scattered through Canada, Australia, Denmark, New...

A research paper on Ancient Mesopotamian civilization.

Examines evidence of early forms of capitalism in the first known civilization, Mesopotamia. Explores Mesopotamia's other characteristics and qualities of the modern global civilization today.

Discusses the ancient Amorite society of Mesopotamia. Analyzes how the ancient civilization influenced current western morality. Examines modern moral code and societal structure and compares our modern laws to those adopted by the Amorites 3,500 years ago.