When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

Archaeologists have found artefacts that tell us about Ancient Sumer life, rulers and beliefs. The Epic of Gilgamesh is a collection of stories written about a superhuman king called Gilgamesh.

if one cross-references his paternity with another ancient text, the Sumerian King List, 3 one finds that Gilgamesh is also listed as the son of the “divine phantom lord of Kulaba.” ...

A team of archaeologists in Iraq, led by Sebastian Rey, the British Museum’s curator of ancient Mesopotamia ... history—featuring charismatic kings such as Naram-Sin, the first to proclaim ...

Mesopotamia—“the land between two ... and was the crowning glory of the king’s homage to Babylon’s ancient Akkadian past. Pergamon Museum, Berlin Photograph by BPK/Scala, Florence It ...

The state archives of the ancient Sumerian site of Girsu, now Tello in the south of Iraq ... Girsu covered hundreds of hectares at its peak and was conquered by King Sargon in around 2300BC. Rey ...