This category lists sites devoted to the ancient history of the Mesopotamian Civilization.
Subcategories 8
Related categories 5
Sites 26
- Mesopotamia Provides information about the Fertile Crescent with a brief look at its geography, culture, and history.
- Mesopotamia Interactive guide to Assyria, Babylonia and Sumer along with information on geography, time, writing, gods and goddesses.
- Ancient Mesopotamia Categorized by art, biographies, daily life, maps, pictures, and research.
- Sam Ruff's Mesopotamia Photographs with audio.
- The Concept Of Personal God(dess) In Enheduana's Hymns to Inanna Paper on the first named and female author in all of world literature.
- Adapa and the Food of Life A story that parallels to the Old Testament.
- Inanna/Ishtar's Descent A story of the goddess' descent into the netherworld providing a testimony as to an early religion in which the goddess, woman, life and love was the center and the heart of religion.
- Mesopotamian Chronicles Historiographical texts.
- Ziggurat A description of a temple tower.
- Medicine in Ancient Mesopotamia History, the sources, concepts of disease and healing, practitioners, and other sources of health care with a bibliography.
- Ancient Tablets, Ancient Graves: Accessing Women's Lives in Mesopotamia Analyzing cuneiform tablets and artifacts to discover women's status, work, and areas where they had some power.
- The Royal Game of Ur An article by Catherine Soubeyrand, including the rules.
- The Hebrews to 1000 BCE Historical article from Abraham to King David.
- Counting in Babylon Article on the numbering system by Michael Fowler.
- The Tablet of Adapa The story of the first man.
- Mesopotamia Extensive list of links and resources.
- A Collection of Mesopotamian Laws Laws governing private as well as public and political life found in fragment condition.
- The Code of the Nesilim Excerpts of the laws.
- Greek Reports of Babylonia, Chaldea, and Assyria An excerpt from Herodotus's The History of the Persian Wars, c. 430 B.C.E.
- The Reports of the Magicians and Astrologers of Nineveh and Babylon A listing of omens, c. 2500 - 670 B.C.E.
- Archaeological Site Photography: Mesopotamia An interactive map leading to photographs of areas of importance.
- Chronology of Mesopotamia A detailed listing from 3750 B.C.E. to 63 B.C.E.
- Collapse: Mesopotamia Essay on reasons for the fall of the empire.
- CyberMuseum: Mesopotamia Images with comments and links.
- Mesopotamia Commentary and resources with ancient Sumerian and Babylonian texts.
- Babylonian and Assyrian Literature Comprises the Epic of Izdubar, hymns, tablets, and cuneiform inscriptions.