In the Land of Ur: The Discovery of Ancient MesopotamiaDescribes archaeological finds in Mesopotamia and what they have revealed of the ancient civilizations of that area. |
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3rd millenium B.C. Akkad Akkadian ancient Arabs Aratta archaeologists Ashurbanipal Assyrian B.C. Baghdad B.C. Paris Babylon Babylonian Botta bricks British building built canals cedar clay tablets copper cuneiform cylinder seal death discovered dream Dumuzi Dur Sharrukin dynasty of Uruk Eannatum earth Enki Enkidu Enlil Enmerkar Entemena Eridu Etana Euphrates excavation feet fields finds Flood French gates Gilgamesh Gimilninurta goddess gods gold grave Gudea Guti hand head heaven Humbaba hundred Inanna inscriptions Khorsabad king Kish Koldewey Kuyunjik Lagash Land of Sumer lapis lazuli Layard lion lord of Aratta Lugalzaggisi Mesopotamia mound mountains Naramsin Nimrud Nineveh Ningirsu Nippur once palace priests Rassam Rawlinson reigned rivers royal ruins Sargon Sarzec Semites sent shrine Shuruppak Smith soldiers stela stone stood Sumerian Sumerian city sun-god Susa tablet house Tell Telloh temple thousand Tigris Umma Urnammu Uruk Urukagina Utnapishtim walls wild Woolley Ziggurat