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This category lists sites devoted to the ancient history of the Mesopotamian Civilization.
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Mesopotamia - Provides information about the Fertile Crescent with a brief look at its geography, culture, and history. Mesopotamia - Interactive guide to Assyria, Babylonia and Sumer along with information on geography, time, writing, gods and goddesses. Ancient Mesopotamia - Categorized by art, biographies, daily life, maps, pictures, and research. Sam Ruff's Mesopotamia - Photographs with audio. The Concept Of Personal God(dess) In Enheduana's Hymns to Inanna - Paper on the first named and female author in all of world literature. Adapa and the Food of Life - A story that parallels to the Old Testament. Inanna/Ishtar's Descent - A story of the goddess' descent into the netherworld providing a testimony as to an early religion in which the goddess, woman, life and love was the center and the heart of religion. Mesopotamian Chronicles - Historiographical texts. Ziggurat - A description of a temple tower. Medicine in Ancient Mesopotamia - History, the sources, concepts of disease and healing, practitioners, and other sources of health care with a bibliography. Ancient Tablets, Ancient Graves: Accessing Women's Lives in Mesopotamia - Analyzing cuneiform tablets and artifacts to discover women's status, work, and areas where they had some power. The Royal Game of Ur - An article by Catherine Soubeyrand, including the rules. The Hebrews to 1000 BCE - Historical article from Abraham to King David. Counting in Babylon - Article on the numbering system by Michael Fowler. The Tablet of Adapa - The story of the first man. Mesopotamia - Extensive list of links and resources. A Collection of Mesopotamian Laws - Laws governing private as well as public and political life found in fragment condition. The Code of the Nesilim - Excerpts of the laws. Greek Reports of Babylonia, Chaldea, and Assyria - An excerpt from Herodotus's The History of the Persian Wars, c. 430 B.C.E. The Reports of the Magicians and Astrologers of Nineveh and Babylon - A listing of omens, c. 2500 - 670 B.C.E. Archaeological Site Photography: Mesopotamia - An interactive map leading to photographs of areas of importance. Chronology of Mesopotamia - A detailed listing from 3750 B.C.E. to 63 B.C.E. Collapse: Mesopotamia - Essay on reasons for the fall of the empire. CyberMuseum: Mesopotamia - Images with comments and links. Mesopotamia - Commentary and resources with ancient Sumerian and Babylonian texts. Babylonian and Assyrian Literature - Comprises the Epic of Izdubar, hymns, tablets, and cuneiform inscriptions.
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