Mesopotamia
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Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia was home to the Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian empires. It is known as the "cradle of civilization" for it was here that early forms of writing, astronomy, mathematics, medicine, and agriculture were discovered. Beautiful art, crafts and architecture were created.
Ancient Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia (DK Eyewitness Books)
DK Eyewitness Books: Mesopotamia
Amazon Price: $8.79 (as of 06/02/2012)
This book is great. I use it for homeschooling my children along with The Great Courses DVD course "Between the Rivers: Mesopotamia". It is easy to match each lecture and the page number that it correlates to in this DK book. As usual, the photography is fantastic. We watch one 30 minute lecture and read one part of the book each day and along with some extra discussions, crafts, and supplemental reading, we have a two month course on Ancient History in Mesopotamia that is top notch.
Ishar Gate (now in Pergamon Museum, Berlin)
Mesopotamia (article)
Commonly known as the "Cradle of civilization", Bronze Age Mesopotamia included Sumer and the Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian Empires. In the Iron Age, it was ruled by the Neo-Assyrian Empire and Neo-Babylonian Empire, and later conquered by the Achaemenid Empire. It mostly remained under Persian rule until the 7th century Islamic conquest of the Sassanid Empire. Under the Caliphate, the region came to be known as Iraq.
Source: Wapedia
Ziggarat at Ali Air Base, Iraq, 2005 (Photo: Hardnfast)
Good Websites on Mesopotamia
- Mesopotamia
- Excellent article on the history of Mesopotamia, written by Albrecht Socin, formerly Professor of Semitic Theology, at Leipzig University, who compiled Baedeker's Handbooks of Palestine and Syria, and was author of an Arabic grammar.
Great Civilizations of Mesopotamia
Latest News on Mesopotamia
Brewing: Another Part of our Mesopotamian Heritage
"When I home-brew a beer, I'm doing something that people in Mesopotamia did 4,000 years ago, for most of the same reasons ... It's sort of a way of reaching back into history and sipping from the deep wellspring of humankind."
-- Topictastic
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JoyfulPamela
Mar 31, 2011 @ 2:22 pm | delete
- Awesome! We will be studying Mesopotamia in our homeschool in the fall and will certainly revisit your page. Thanks! =D
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JoyfulPamela
Mar 31, 2011 @ 2:22 pm | delete
- Awesome! We will be studying Mesopotamia in our homeschool in the fall and will certainly revisit your page. Thanks! =D
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blastfromthepast
Sep 5, 2008 @ 6:16 am | delete
- Hi CrypticFragments, Thank you for your kind comments. Can you please give me the address of your lens on Sumerian culture and history?
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CrypticFragments
Sep 5, 2008 @ 12:40 am | delete
- pretty darn good...I just published a lens on Sumerian culture and history myself!
nice to "meet" you
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