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Mesopotamian civilizations
Societies, cities and religious traditions in Mesopotamia.
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Nineveh and Kuyunjik
Nineveh is an ancient Assyrian city near Mosul in northern Iraq; Kuyunjik is one of its archaeological mounds
Kuyunjik mound at Nineveh in northern Iraq, in an April 1990 photograph taken near the northwestern corner of the city wall. A dated archival view of the site at that time; the photographer’s original annotation remains in the image
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Susa, ancient Shush
Susa is an archaeological city at Shush in southwestern present-day Iran
Remains of the Apadana hall of Darius’s palace at Susa, at Shush in southwestern Iran, 18 April 2019. The column bases and archaeological remains appear in the foreground
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Babylon
Babylon is an ancient city in central present-day Iraq, south of Baghdad
The site of Babylon in Iraq, in a photograph dated 2009 on its source page. It includes buildings reconstructed in modern times over the archaeological site, alongside the surrounding land
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Nippur / Nuffar
Mesopotamian city and major Enlil cult centre, connected with kings’ legitimacy beyond the city.
Ziggurat mound at Nippur from the southwest, photograph by Noémi Alzayadi. The building on top dates to late-nineteenth-century excavations, not a standing Sumerian temple. Modern site context; display copy resized only
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Eanna at Uruk
An archaeological precinct and institutional centre at Uruk associated with Inanna; its name does not fix every early building’s function.
Warka Vase, Iraq Museum, IM19606, late fourth millennium BCE. Plants, animals and presentation; parts restored. Emblems link it to Inanna, while female identity remains unsettled. Photo, 2019
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Uruk
Ancient city at Warka in southern Iraq, a major urban centre around 3200 BCE that preserved early writing and accounting tablets.
Architectural remains at Uruk/Warka, photographed by David Stanley, 9 April 2016. The sign is modern; its claim about first writing is not independent evidence of global priority or an exact invention date
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Eridu
Abu Shahrain in southern Iraq, with a long architectural sequence beginning before writing. Associated with Enki in historical times, which does not establish the sacred being’s identity in its earliest layers.
Eridu ziggurat remains, photographed by David Stanley on 11 April 2016. The visible architecture postdates the Ubaid; it is not a photograph of its earliest temples or evidence of their deity’s identity
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Mesopotamia
A historical region associated with the Tigris and Euphrates, home to many societies and civilisations.
The ziggurat of Ur in southern Iraq, in a modern photograph that includes restored parts of the structure. An example of a Mesopotamian site, not an image of the entire region or a reconstruction of all its periods
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Mari
An ancient city and kingdom on the Euphrates, at Tell Hariri in eastern Syria.
Ruins of the palace associated with Zimri-Lim at Mari, Tell Hariri. A photograph of the setting of the royal archives, not a reconstruction of its ancient appearance
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