Resources for Mesopotamian Civilization

 

 

Urbanism:

 

EARLY CITIES
HISTORIOGRAPHY
ARCHITECTURE
PALACES
HANGING GARDENS
ZIGGURATS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

EARLY CITIES

 

Ur in the Age of Hammurabi

Nippur: Sacred City of Enlil

Eridu

Uruk

Kish

Rulers of Kish

Umma and Lagash

Rulers of Lagash

 

 

HISTORIOGRAPHY

 

Herodotus and the City of Babylon

Greek Reports of Babylonia, Chaldea, and Assyria

 

 

CITY PLANNING & ARCHITECTURE

 

The Gate of Ishtar

Mesopotamian Babylonian Architecture

The History of Plumbing - Babylonia

 

 

 

PALACES

Ancient Assyria Palaces

The Northwest Palace of Ashur-nasir-pal II at Nimrud

Reliefs from the Northwest Palace

 

 

HANGING GARDENS

 

Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

The Hanging Gardens: a web research project

 

 

ZIGGURATS

 

The Ziggurats

The Sumerian Ziggurat at Ur

The Sacred Complex of Babylon

The Temple of Marduk