The Ancient Middle EastEast Sayid!... Or the Rise of Civilization

The Fertile Crescent or The Cradle of Civilization

White Temple and Ziggurat

Reconstruction Drawing

Uruk, Iraq3,200-3,000 BCE

Statuettes of two WorshippersFrom the Square Temple at Eshnunna

Modern Tell Asmar, Iraq

Gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone

Male figure is approx 2’6” tall

2,700 BCE

Head of an Akkadian Ruler

Ninevah (modern Kuyunjik, Iraq)

Copper

1’ 2 ⅜” tall

2,250-2,200 BCE

Victory Stele of Naram-Sin

Pink Sandstone

Susa, Iran

6’ 7” Tall

2,254-2,218 BCE

Housed in the Louvre, Paris, France

Stele w/Law Code of Hammurabi

Basalt

Susa, Iran

Approx 7’ 4”

1,780 BCE

Housed in the Louvre, Paris, France

Lamassu (winged, human-headed bull)

From the citadel of Sargon II, Dur Sharrukin (modern Khorsbad), Iraq

Limestone

Approx. 13’ 10” tall

720-705 BCE

House in the Louvre, Paris, France

Ashurbanipal Hunting Lions

Relief from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal, Ninevah (modern Kuyunjik), Iraq

Gypsum

5’ 4” tall

645-640 BCE

Housed in the British Museum, London, England

Ishtar Gate

Babylon, Iraq

Glazed Brick with lapis lazuli

575 BCE

Houses in the Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Germany

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