The story of archeology in Iraq began with the first references contained in the scriptures and classical blogs that referred to the civilizations and peoples of ancient Iraq and its effects, so many Arab and foreign travelers visited the archaeological sites scattered in Iraq
The Greek historian Herodotus describes the cultural progress of ancient Iraq:
“Every person in Mesopotamia, ancient Iraq, had a seal used as a signature, with which he signed the soft wage in the last letters or contracts written on him.”
Akkadian Civilization, about 2300-2200 BC
Cylindrical seal with three Personals with mushkhushshu
Eyed sardonyx quartz (probably artifically dyed agate) cylinder seal; banded, brown, white-brown and white; a bearded god (probably the moon god Sin)
Cultures Assyrian Mesopotamia iraq date1250BC
Clay tablet administrative tablet bureaucratic compilation of the Ur III dynasty register of fields and their yields over one year the largest cuneiform tablet known discovered in mesopotamia Iraq and now at the British museum2082…
Babylonian astronomical tablet At right this diagram shows how the distance traveled by Jupiter after 60 days 10º45 is calculated as the area of the trapezoid The Babylonians knew they could then divide this trapezoid…
Quadrangular fired clay prism; inscription refers to votive gift to Adad the weather god; the wavy lines are thunder bolts to which libations were poured; inscribed on three sides. Inscription of the donor, Ninurta-resushu.Cultures/KassiteProduction date13thC…
iraq officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in West Asia and in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East. With a population of over 46 million, it is the 31st-most populous country. It is a federal parliamentary republic that consists of 19 governorates.
The Story of Writing PEPOLE WHO LIVED as hunters and nomads did not need written records. As the first cities arose, people began to require records of ownership, business deals, and government. The Sumerians devised…
Mesopotamian Mathematics rimitive people counted using simple methods, such as putting notches on bones, but it was the Sumerians who developed a formal numbering system based on units of 60, according to Robert E. and…
Medicine in Mesopotamia iraq SummaryCuneiform medical manuscripts are found in large numbers, mostly from 1st-millennium BCE sites throughout ancient Mesopotamia. Included in the therapeutic tradition are pharmacological glossaries, herbal recipes with plant, mineral, and animal…
Sumiran literature documented a group of some five thousand tablets discovered in south of Iraq Mesopotamia and fragments inscribed with a varied assortment of literary works have also been unearthed, and these enable us to penetrate…
Schools in ancient Iraq ave you ever wondered what school life was like for a young child in Mesopotamia? Well, this tablet includes a mesopotamia tale that recounts two days in the life of a…
The ancient Mesopotamians may have been some of the first humans to build dams. The Jarwana Dam, located in the Sheikhan district and about fifty kilometers from the city of Mosul, is one of the oldest dams in the world, as it was built 2800 years ago. And on his stones appear cuneiform writing
The Oldest Known Map: The Map of NippurThis ancient clay tablet dates to the 14th-13th century BC. It shows a map of the countryside around the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, located in the middle of…
The nearly half million cuneiform tablets excavated from ancient Near Eastern sites provide us with ample evidence for the uses of music in ancient Sumer, Akkad , Babylonia, and Assyria, hatra , Abbasid period Pictorial…
Time Division in Mesopotamia old iraq Mesopotamia iraq was one of the first civilizations to develop a system of timekeeping. The Mesopotamians divided their days into segments, and they used various methods to measure time.…
Mesopotamian religion old iraqThe he religious beliefs and practices of the Sumerians and Akkadians and their successors, the Babylonians and Assyrians, form a single stream of tradition. Sumerian in origin, Mesopotamian religion was added to…
The Sumerians were some of the earliest people to use copper to make useful items, ranging from spearheads to chisels and razors, according to the Copper Development Association. They also made art with copper, including…
