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- History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
1: ... how sculpture has changed extensively over the ages.
3: == Sculpture in ancient times==
4: ...nd. Small female statues known as [[Venus figurines]] have been found mainly in central [[Europe]]. ...
6: ...ld, silver, shells, and a variety of precious stones were used for high quality sculpture and inlays. ...
8: ...ere discovered at [[Tell Asmar]]. Many masterpieces have also been found at the Royal Cemetery at [[U... - Ziggurat (6043 bytes)
1: ... construction which spanned several terraced stories and were topped with a [[temple]] fit for any [[g...
5: ... temple closer to the [[heaven]]s, and provide access from the ground to it via steps.
9: ...tiers. It is known that there were three staircases leading to the [[temple]], two of which (side fla...
11: ...ined the remains of earlier ziggurats and structures. The final stage consisted of a 15 [[metre|meter...
15: ...e include the ruins at [[Ur]] and Khorsabad in [[Mesopotamia]]. - Literature (25676 bytes)
1: ...tive and often controversial or dubious, but it does not interfere with the above definition.
5: ...ssey]]'' and the [[Constitution of the United States]], all fall within this definition of a kind of l...
7: ...ationalistic]] implications. The [[Western canon|Western Canon]] forms one such literature.
9: ...posed of letters, or other narrowly defined examples of symbolic written language ([[hieroglyph]]s, fo...
11: ... all literate people perceive the works of [[Charles Dickens]] as "literature", whereas many tend to l... - Babylonia (8254 bytes)
1: {{Template:Ancient Mesopotamia}}
2: ...[[Akkad]]. Its capital was [[Babylon]]. The earliest mention of Babylon can be found in a tablet of t...
5: ...s. It was one of ancient Mesopotamia's major empires.
7: ...ed by [[Assyria]] before its second rise to greatness.
11: ...dean the following year. With help from the [[Medes]], [[Niniveh]] was sacked in 612, and the seat of... - Babylon (9716 bytes)
1: {{alternateuses}}
3: {{Template:Ancient Mesopotamia}}
4: .... It was the capital city of [[Babylonia]] in [[Mesopotamia]] (in contemporary [[Iraq]], about 70 [[M...
8: ...provincial town, until it became the capital of [[Hammurabi]]'s empire ([[18th century BC]]) From this time o...
10: ...]] and again under [[Shamash-shum-ukin]] but was besieged and taken over by [[Sennacherib]] and Assurb... - Ur (11926 bytes)
1: ...land in present-day [[Iraq]], south of the Euphrates on its right bank at {{coor dm|30|95|N|46|5|E|}},...
3: ...eity]] in [[Sumerian mythology]], and has two stages constructed from brick: in the lower stage the br...
9: ...ly [[3rd millennium BC]], the small farming villages of the Ubaid culture consolidated into larger set...
11: ...shed by the king [[Mesannepada]] (or Mesanepada, Mes-Anni-Padda).
15: ...the surviving works of Sumerian literature describes the death of Ur-Nammu and his journey to the unde... - Akkadian Empire (9189 bytes)
1: {{Ancient Mesopotamia}}
2: ...e|Elam]] and Barahs." But the fame of these early establishers of Semitic supremacy was far eclipsed b...
4: ...nd dated in the years of the campaigns against Palestine and Sarlak, king of [[Gutian period|Gutium]] ...
6: ... the four quarters, and, like his father, was addressed as a god. He is even called "the god of Agade"...
8: ...blance to early Egyptian art in many of its features, has been found at [[Diarbekr]]. Babylonian art, ... - Mari, Syria (5848 bytes)
2: ...til [[1759 BC|1759 BCE]], when it was sacked by [[Hammurabi]]. [[Abraham]] himself is thought to have passed...
6: ...he beginning of excavations, over 25,000 clay tables in [[Akkadian language]] written in [[cuneiform]]...
8: ...ries were made that horizontal digging had to be resumed".
11: [[Image:Ishiqmari.jpg|thumb|A small statue representing a third millennium BCE ruler of Mari]]
16: ...ch as timber and stone from northern Syria, and these materials had to go through Mari to get to Sumer... - Timeline of Middle Eastern History (12425 bytes)
1: ...], [[Iraq]], [[Iran]], [[Israel]], the [[Gulf States]], [[Saudi Arabia]], [[Yemen]], and [[Oman]]. The...
3: ...es|articles on the histories of individual countries]]. See [[Ancient Near East]] for ancient history ...
11: * [[Agriculture]] in [[Mesopotamia]]
12: * Domestication of [[sheep]] and [[goats]] in the [[Middl...
16: ... at [[Nevali Cori]] in present-day [[Turkey]] are established. - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
4: ...kad]], centered in [[Susa]], in what is now southwestern [[Iran]]. The Elamite period is considered to...
8: ..., where they are called the offspring of Elam, eldest son of [[Shem]] (see [[Elam (Hebrew Bible)]]).
10: ... fact, the modern provincial name [[Khuzestan|Khuzestān]] is derived from the Old Persian root ''...
13: ...iest date back to the third milennium BCE, the latest to the [[Achaemenid Empire]].
16: {{Template:Ancient Mesopotamia}} - Assyria (13688 bytes)
1: :''For the modern-day peoples in northern Iraq and neighboring areas, see [[Ass...
2: {{Template:Ancient Mesopotamia}}
3: ...o came to include roughly the northern half of [[Mesopotamia]] (the southern half being '[[Babylonia]]...
5: ... Carduchian mountain range of [[Armenia]], sometimes called the "Mountains of Asshur".
10: ...esides Asshur, the other three royal Assyrian cities were [[Calah]] and [[Nineveh]], also near the Tig...
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