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Archaeologists and Mesopotamia

About the only connection between Germany and Mesopotamia that comes to my mind is the Mesopotamian collection at the Pergamon Museum in...

Part III: Ashurbanipal!

Ashurbanipal, portrayed as a priest. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Assurbanipal_als_hogepriester.jpg) He looks the most...

Part I: Sargon!

You saw him in the video wearing a helmet, playing bass guitar and grinning at the end with bugs crawling all over his teeth…he is...

8 Gifts for the ‘Mesopotamianiac’

We’re in the homestretch, and gift-giving season is zipping by, so I thought I’d whip up a gift guide for that Mesopotamianiac in your...

Who murdered King Sennacherib?

King Sennacherib profile. (Source) And we continue with the story of Sennacherib, the Assyrian king, who made Nineveh his capital and...