Directory of Mesopotamia Resources

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This category lists sites devoted to the ancient history of the Mesopotamian Civilization.

Subcategories

• Akkadians
• Amorites
• Assyria
• Babylonia
• Chaldeans
• Hittites
• Kassites
• Sumer

Resources in This Category

• A Collection of Mesopotamian Laws

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/2550mesolaws.asp
  Laws governing private as well as public and political life found in fragment condition.

• Adapa and the Food of Life

  http://www.sacred-texts.com/ane/adapa.htm
  A story that parallels to the Old Testament.

• Ancient Mesopotamia

  http://www.historylink101.com/ancient_mesopotamia.htm
  Categorized by art, biographies, daily life, maps, pictures, and research.

• Ancient Tablets, Ancient Graves: Accessing Women's Lives in Mesopotamia

  http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/lesson2.html
  Analyzing cuneiform tablets and artifacts to discover women's status, work, and areas where they had some power.

• Archaeological Site Photography: Mesopotamia

  http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/lab/photos/meso/
  An interactive map leading to photographs of areas of importance.

• Babylonian and Assyrian Literature

  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10887
  Comprises the Epic of Izdubar, hymns, tablets, and cuneiform inscriptions.

• Chronology of Mesopotamia

  http://piccionep.people.cofc.edu/graphics/mesop_chronol.html?
  A detailed listing from 3750 B.C.E. to 63 B.C.E.

• Collapse: Mesopotamia

  http://www.learner.org/interactives/collapse/mesopotamia.html
  Essay on reasons for the fall of the empire.

• Counting in Babylon

  http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/109N/lectures/babylon.html
  Article on the numbering system by Michael Fowler.

• CyberMuseum: Mesopotamia

  http://jaydambrosio.tripod.com/mesopotamia.html
  Images with comments and links.

• Greek Reports of Babylonia, Chaldea, and Assyria

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/greek-babylon.asp
  An excerpt from Herodotus's The History of the Persian Wars, c. 430 B.C.E.

• Inanna/Ishtar's Descent

  http://inanna.virtualave.net/tammuz.html
  A story of the goddess' descent into the netherworld providing a testimony as to an early religion in which the goddess, woman, life and love was the center and the heart of religion.

• Medicine in Ancient Mesopotamia

  http://www.indiana.edu/~ancmed/meso.HTM
  History, the sources, concepts of disease and healing, practitioners, and other sources of health care with a bibliography.

• Mesopotamia

  http://www.mrdowling.com/603mesopotamia.html
  Provides information about the Fertile Crescent with a brief look at its geography, culture, and history.

• Mesopotamia

  http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/
  Interactive guide to Assyria, Babylonia and Sumer along with information on geography, time, writing, gods and goddesses.

• Mesopotamia

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook03.asp
  Extensive list of links and resources.

• Mesopotamia

  http://www.interfaith.org/mesopotamia/
  Commentary and resources with ancient Sumerian and Babylonian texts.

• Mesopotamian Chronicles

  http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/chron00.html
  Historiographical texts.

• Sam Ruff's Mesopotamia

  http://users.rcn.com/jrp2/sam/
  Photographs with audio.

• The Code of the Nesilim

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/1650nesilim.asp
  Excerpts of the laws.

• The Concept Of Personal God(dess) In Enheduana's Hymns to Inanna

  http://www.angelfire.com/mi/enheduanna/Enhedwriting.html
  Paper on the first named and female author in all of world literature.

• The Hebrews to 1000 BCE

  http://www.fsmitha.com/h1/ch04.htm
  Historical article from Abraham to King David.

• The Reports of the Magicians and Astrologers of Nineveh and Babylon

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/bablylonian-astrology.asp
  A listing of omens, c. 2500 - 670 B.C.E.

• The Royal Game of Ur

  http://www.gamecabinet.com/history/Ur.html
  An article by Catherine Soubeyrand, including the rules.

• The Tablet of Adapa

  http://www.earth-history.com/Sumer/adapa.htm
  The story of the first man.

• Ziggurat

  http://www.livius.org/za-zn/ziggurat/ziggurat.html
  A description of a temple tower.

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