Mesopotamia, situated roughly where Iraq is today, was one of the greatest ancient civilizations. It was here that the very first cities were created, and where the familiar sights of modern urban life - public buildings and gardens, places of worship, even streets and pavements…
"In antiquity, North Mesopotamia was the centre of the confrontation between different imperial entities. Rome, the Parthians, the Sasanians and the nomads of the region were all agents of a complex series of dynamics that impacted on the area: Rome found the most serious threat…
Nella comunicazione visuale della Mesopotamia e della Siria tra III e I mill. a.C., la decapitazione occupa un ruolo particolare nel merito e nel significato. Si ©· inteso quindi presentare una documentazione che mira a palesare alcune condizioni, relazioni e valori che stanno a…
Babylonia in the second half of the 2nd millennium BCE is one of the most understudied periods of Mesopotamian history. In the last few years, discoveries of new texts and archaeological materials from the Sealand Dynasty have emerged, which expand the possibilities to fill this…
Babylonia in the second half of the 2nd millennium BCE is one of the most understudied periods of Mesopotamian history. In the last few years, discoveries of new texts and archaeological materials from the Sealand Dynasty have emerged, which expand the possibilities to fill this…
The Ur III dynasty (ca. 2112-2004 B. C. E.) left behind tens of thousands of economic and administrative records, and scholars consider it one of the best documented periods in ancient Mesopotamia. Of all the Ur III sites, Umma has yielded the largest number of texts--that numbe…
