Code Of Hammurabi
The Code of Hammurabi is one of the most recognised Ancient documents. Passed by the Babylonian King Hammurabi around 1754 BC, it has served as…
Ancient Mesopotamia
Fertile Crescent: The Cradle Of Civilization
The Fertile Crescent which is known as the Cradle Of Civilization, is a wide flat plain between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers which flow…
Rise Of Civilization: Assyrian Empire
Who were the Assyrians and what were they known for? Infamous for its brutality which is even recorded in the Bible’s Old Testament, the…
Epic Of Gilgamesh: The Search For Immortality
The Epic of Gilgamesh records the search of Gilgamesh, King of the Sumerian City of Uruk to obtain the Immortality of the Anunnaki Gods,…
How Beer Created Civilization
Beer helped start Civilization over 10,000 years back in Ancient Mesopotamia and Sumer, when hunter gatherers found by accident that barley remaining in a…
Political Propaganda Art In Ancient Mesopotamia
Art As Propaganda In Ancient Mesopotamia In Propaganda In Ancient Sumeria, we considered the use of Culture in the form of Epics such as…
The Ancient Origins Of Babylonian Astrology
Known as the Royal Science in Ancient times, Astronomy dates to Ancient Sumer in the Second Millenium BC. Its the first known system of…
Rise Of Civilization: The Akkadian Empire
The Akkadian Empire is known for being the world’s first empire founded by Sargon Of Akkad circa 2300 BC, and introducing the concept of…
The Amorites Of Babylon
The rise of the Amorites of Babylon came after the Sumerian Renaissance and it paved the way for the rise of Babylon as a…
Rise Of Civilization: Ancient Babylon
Babylonia The settlement which would become Babylon – referred to as Babbar at the time, was intitially a minor city from the Early Dynastic…