- of
Akkad around 2350 BC,
characterized the
subsequent 2,000
years of
Mesopotamian history,
marked by the
succession of
kingdoms and
empires such as the...
-
Mesopotamian religion encomp****es the
religious beliefs (concerning the gods,
creation and the cosmos, the
origin of man, and so forth) and
practices of...
-
Mesopotamian mythology refers to the myths,
religious texts, and
other literature that
comes from the
region of
ancient Mesopotamia which is a historical...
-
Mesopotamian Arabic (Arabic: لهجة بلاد ما بين النهرين), also
known as
Iraqi Arabic (Arabic: اللهجة العراقية), or just as
Iraqi (Arabic: عراقي), is a group...
- The
Mesopotamian campaign or
Mesopotamian front (Turkish: Irak Cephesi) was a
campaign in the
Middle Eastern theatre of
World War I
fought between the...
-
Danna (Sumerian) or Beru (Akkadian) is a word
denoting a unit of time
consisting of two hours.
There were
twelve Danna in a day.
Danna were
first used...
-
elaborate decorative gold and
silver ornaments sewn into them. The
ancient Mesopotamians believed that
their deities lived in Heaven, but that a god's statue...
- The
ancient Mesopotamian underworld (known in
Sumerian as Kur, Irkalla, ****ku, Arali, or Kigal, and in
Akkadian as Erṣetu), was the
lowermost part of the...
- The
Mesopotamian Marshes, also
known as the
Iraqi Marshes, are a
wetland area
located in
Southern Iraq and
southwestern Iran. The
marshes are primarily...
- and
ruled by
foreigners for
centuries after the fall of the
indigenous Mesopotamian empires. As a
direct consequence of this long history, the contemporary...
