The Sumerians lived in Mesopotamia from about 4500 to 1750 B.C.E., and developed a number of technologies that changed the course of human history. They also developed cuneiform, one of the ...

Mesopotamia some 6000 years ago, one of the cradle of civilizations and the birthplace of the first writing system. In the fertile valley between the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates the earliest cities ...

Mesopotamia is a land of many firsts. ... One ziggurat, dedicated to the god Marduk and built by Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II around 2,500 years ago, ...

Archaeologists in Iraq have unearthed the remains of a 4,500-year-old Sumerian temple dedicated to Ningirsu, the Mesopotamian god of springtime thunder, the British Museum has reported.

The divine procession ls led by Hadad, Mesopotamian god of storms (far right, clutching a trio of lightning bolts); the moon god Sîn; the sun god Šamaš; and Atargatis, the region’s goddess of ...

Some of popular culture’s most famous ghosts and demons have roots in ancient Mesopotamia. What did ... (1984), Sigourney Weaver’s Dana is possessed by Zuul, a minion of the fictional god ...

Ancient Mesopotamian clay tablets discovered in Iraq reveal intricate details of how empire was governed. ... he is shown wearing a horned crown, resembling, Rey adds, “a god-like figure”.