Long, long ago and far, far away in a country called Mesopotamia (meaning “land between rivers”) many aspects of civilization as we know it today took shape. That crescent between the T… ...

Richly illustrated with more than 400 full-color photographs, Art of Mesopotamia is an astounding record by award-winning author Zainab Bahrani of artworks from this region, many of which have in ...

Mesopotamia’s 6,000-year-old cylinders with antique symbols ... stamp seals were used on clay for administrative purposes from the late seventh millennium BCE and onward in Northern Mesopotamia.

The team examined cylinder seals from a wide area of south-west Asia, including Mesopotamia, that dated to 4400 to 3400 BC. They found several symbols that corresponded to proto-cuneiform symbols.

The first is "Cultural Innovation," which deals with the birth of cities. The second, "Art and Identity," presents works expressing individual identity. And the third, "The Age of Empires," presents ...

I n Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins, the new exhibition at the Getty Villa, the Getty does indeed start at the very beginning.At a place in what we now call Iraq, between the Tigris and Euphrates ...

The world's oldest known system of writing was influenced by symbols used for trade — engravings found on cylinders used in the exchange of farming produce and textiles, a new study suggests ...

About 4,500 years ago, an image of the Sumerian storm god Ningirsu was engraved on a silver vessel now on view in the Getty Villa Museum exhibition “Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins ...

Richard S. Ellis, Some Observations on Mesopotamian Art and Archaeology, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 95, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1975), pp. 81-94 Free online reading for over 10 million ...

MESOPOTAMIAN ART UNEARTHED. Polish archeologists working in Iraq are reported to have unearthed five stone sculptures created by humans who roamed the banks of the Tigris River 10,000 years ago.