Early Mesopotamian City states Map Ur (Sumerian: Urim; Akkadian: Uru) was an important Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia, located at the site of modern Tell el-Muqayyar in South Iraq's Dhi Qar Governorate. The site was known and excavated by Leonard Woolley and others during the 1920s and 1930s...

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The Medes /midz/[N 1] (Hebrew: מָדַי, Old Persian Māda-) were an ancient Iranian people who lived in an area known ...

Headdress with leaf–shaped ornaments, 2600–2500B.C.; Early Dynastic period IIIa; Sumerian style Excavated at "King's ...

Mesopotamia (Gk '[the land] between the rivers') This region of the Near East is defined by the Euphrates and Tigris ...

Persian Gulf Trade, the active maritime trading of the 3rd and early 2nd millennia BC between Mesopotamia - especially ...