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Seal impression from Nushi Jan Castle Complex, c. 650 BCE. National Museum of Iran, Tehran, inv. no. 13145. Median art has few remaining examples and almost none that seem free from the impacts of its regional predecessors and contemporaries...

The cuneiform inscriptions on this tablet narrate the story of "Lugalbanda and the Mountain Cave." Lugalbanda was Gilgamesh's father. This large literary document inscribed in Sumerian tells us how Lugalbanda was lost in the Kurdistan mountains...

Professor Farouk Al-Rawi (left) talks with Dr. Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin (author; right) about the newly discovered Tablet II of the Epic of Gilgamesh. The interview was conducted at the Sulaymaniyah Museum on April 7, 2019 CE. Professor...

A map illustrating the emergence of the Sumerian civilization around 6000 BCE from a collection of city-states on the floodplains of southern Mesopotamia, along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in the area that was to later become the Akkadian...

The Hero Overpowering a Lion Neo-Assyrian period, reign of Sargon II (721-705 BC) Khorsabad, ancient city of Dur Sharrukin, facade N of the throne room of the palace of Sargon II, Assyria (Iraq). High relief, gypseous alabaster, traces...

Clay head of an ogre, most probably Humbaba of the Cedar Forest. From Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq. Old Babylonian period, 2003-1595 BCE. The Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraq.

This week on Crash Course mythology, Mike is talking to you about floods. You may have heard the story of Noah and the Ark from the Bible, but that is not the only deluge story humans tell. It's a common thing across culture. You could say...

In animation, this video describes the development of cuneiform script, the importance of documenting, the occupation of scribes and a brief description of a few myths (including the Epic of Gilgamesh), all pertinent to Sumerian culture in...

This video describes the intricate system of writing in cuneiform script, the first written composition ("The Epic of Gilgamesh"), and the role of scribes in Mesopotamia. Courtesy of Discovery Education

Although the biblical story of Noah’s Ark is the best known, numerous cultures all around the globe and throughout history have developed their own versions of the flood myth, with the oldest one being the Eridu Genesis, also known as the...