Megalithic Portal: Latest from Iraq

Tell Khaiber

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:05:36 GMT

]]>. An ancient Sumerian city, 20km from Ur, inhabited from about 4000 to 2000 BCE. British and Iraqi archaeologists have started the excavation of the enormous building complex. One of the most striking finds at the site to date is a clay plaque, 9cm high, apparently showing a worshipper approaching a sacred place.

Ur of the Chaldees

Sat, 12 Jan 2013 12:01:17 GMT

]]>Drought May Have Killed Sumerian Language. Ancient Settlement in Iraq. Remains of early Sumerian city and royal cemetery. The mud brick Great Ziggurat, dating to the Middle Bronze Age (2100 BC), is the most notable structure on the site.

Babylon.

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 19:30:27 GMT

]]>Modern curses threaten Iraq's ancient wonder of Babylon. Ancient city dating to 3rd millenium BCE and earlier and one of the most important cities of ancient Mesopotamia. The site today is marked by a broad area of ruins just east of the Euphrates River, about 90 km south of Baghdad, Iraq.

Study of Sumerian and Akkadian languages reveal a lost world

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 18:05:51 GMT

]]>. Gonzalo Rubio spends his days reading dead languages that haven't been spoken for thousands of years. An assyriologist at Pennsylvania State University, Rubio studies the world's very first written languages, Sumerian and Akkadian, which were used in ancient Mesopotamia (an area covering modern-day Iraq).

Larsa

Sat, 15 Jan 2011 12:38:32 GMT

�When the creditor demands it...� � 3,800 year old tablets from Larsa, Iraq. Larsa was an ancient Sumerian city dating to at least between 2700 or 2800 BCE in Mesopotamia, now Iraq. It lay 22 Km southeast of the Uruk ruin mounds, near the east bank of the Shatt-en-Nil canal. King Ur-Gur is said to have built or restored the E-Babbar ziggurat, the temple of Shamash.

Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 03:23:58 GMT

Authorities in Iraq Finds Missing Artifacts in Premier's Storage. See comments.. Museum in Baghdad. Established by the British traveler Gertrude Bell, the museum houses priceless treasures of Mesopotamia. Its collections are amongst the most important in the world. Although notable items were preserved in badly looted during the recent Iraqi war during the fall of the city in April 2003, the museum has only opened periodically since then. Efforts to retrieve stolen items have involved international governments, their police agencies and UNESCO.

Nimrud

Tue, 18 May 2010 17:19:04 GMT

]]>"Spectacular" cuneiform tablets unearthed containing a largely intact Assyrian treaty from 7th century BC, see comment. Ancient Settlement in Iraq. Remains of early Assyrian city. The city of Nimrud was the ancient Assyrian city called Kalhu, Calah or Kalakh, located on the river Tigris south of Nineveh and some 30 km southeast of modern Mosul.

Arbil, Iraq

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:51:34 GMT

. Ancient Settlement in Iraq. Archaeologists claim to have found the oldest continually habited village in the history of humanity. Czech diggers have found remains of an about 150,000-year-old prehistoric settlement in Arbil, north Iraq. The archaeologists revealed a high number of items, mainly prehistoric stone tools, about nine metres under the ground in Arbil, capital of the Kurdish autonomous region.

Gondashlu Stone Quarry

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:50:51 GMT

. Ancient Mine in Iran. Most of the Achaemenid Gondashlu Stone Quarry Destroyed. One of the most important Achaemenid quarries in Fars Province known as Gondashlu which provided the stone for building Persepolis has been destroyed, and its usefulness now been lost, reported the Persian Service of CHN on Saturday.

Return to the demonised and fascinating Babylon

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:53:19 GMT

. No city has been demonised quite like Babylon, nor any king so denounced as the incarnation of evil as Nebuchadnezzar. Neither the scriptures nor the myths have spared them: for more than 2,000 years Babylon has been a byword for vice, excess and well-deserved ruin while legend has created a ruler consumed by pride, folly and cruelty.