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{{Short description|Sumerian name given to the laws of the gods}} ...[[Sumer]]ian understanding of the relationship between [[Human|humanity]] and [[deity|the gods]]. ...

...relimbs, a long neck and tail, two horns on its head, a snake-like tongue, and a crest. The {{lang|akk-Latn|mušḫuššu}} most famously appears on the [[Isht ....<ref name=":03">{{Cite book |last=Ceram |first=C. W. |title=Gods, Graves, and Scholars: The Story of Archaeology |publisher=[[Alfred A. Knopf]] |year=196 ...

|caption = Partially reconstructed facade and the access staircase of the ziggurat. The actual remains of the Neo-Babylon ...2</sup><ref>{{cite book|last1=Mattinson|first1=Lindsay|title=Understanding Architecture A Guide To Architectural Styles|date=2019|publisher=Amber Books|isbn=978-1- ...

...he Metropolitan Museum of Art'', pp. 303-312, 1988, Metropolitan Museum of Art, {{ISBN|0870995251}}, 9780870995255, [https://books.google.com/books?id=5sx ....org/toah/works-of-art/L.1995.48.2 |publisher=[[The Metropolitan Museum of Art]] |accessdate=March 30, 2014}}</ref> ...

[[File:Met Gudea.JPG|thumb|right|Statue P at the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]]] ...named by archaeologists as "A" to "Z" and "AA". Many statues are headless, and there are also detached heads. Gudea is named in the dedicatory inscription ...

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[[File:Sumerian Calendar ISO B0.svg|thumb|right|300px|Sumerian Metrology]] ...d issued official standards such as [[Statues of Gudea|Statue B of Gudea]] and the bronze [[cubit]] of [[Nippur]]. ...

...uf dem Gaulskopf.jpg|thumb|[[Ancient Rome|Roman]] tower ([[Reconstruction (architecture)|reconstruction]]) at [[Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes|Limes]] – [[Taunus]] ...are distinguished from [[guyed mast|masts]] by their lack of [[guy-wires]] and are therefore, along with tall buildings, self-supporting structures. ...

...called a '''''lamassuse''''')<ref>Kriwaczek, Paul. ''Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization'', p. 37.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.to ...; The Babylonian and Assyrian Legends Concerning the Creation of the World and of Mankind|page=78}}</ref> ...

{{Short description|Spanish Jesuit priest, archeologist and historian in India}} [[File:Henry Heras 1981 stamp of India.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Heras and a [[Mohenjo-Daro]] tablet on a 1981 stamp of India]] ...

...g Louvre AO6620.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|Cylinder-seal of the [[Uruk period]] and its impression, c.3100 BC. [[Louvre Museum]].]] [[File:Flickr - Nic's events - British Museum with Cory and Mary, 6 Sep 2007 - 185.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|Cylinder seal of [[First Dynas ...

...tanical rosette]], formed by leaves radiating out from the stem of a plant and visible even after the flowers have withered. ...[[Star of Ishtar]].<ref>Black, Jeremy; Green, Anthony (1992), Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Illustrated Dictionary, The British Muse ...

...structure, the "Anu Ziggurat", dates to the [[Sumerians]] around 4000 BC, and the White Temple was built on top of it circa 3500 BC.<ref>{{cite book|last ...society offered these individuals such gifts as music, harvested produce, and the creation of devotional statues to entice them to live in the temple. ...

...ts architecture and testimony to the evolution of museums as architectural and social phenomena.<ref name = "unesco">{{cite web |url=https://whc.unesco.or ...us [[Pergamon Altar]], the {{Lang|de|italics=no|Vorderasiatisches Museum}} and the {{Lang|de|italics=no|Museum für Islamische Kunst}}. ...

...rate]], in southern [[Iraq]]. Like the [[Uruk Trough]], [[Mask of Warka]], and the [[Narmer Palette]] from [[Ancient Egypt|Egypt]], it is one of the earli ...e may illustrate a reproduction of the ritual marriage between the goddess and her consort that ensures Uruk's continued vitality.<ref name=":0" /> ...

...[[painting]], [[weaving]], [[pottery]], [[calligraphy]], [[stonemasonry]] and [[metalworking]]. Additionally, Iraq embraces and celebrates the achievements of its past in pre-[[Islamic]] times as well as ...

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...nthian capital.<ref>"Volute". ''A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture''. James Stevens Curl. Oxford University Press, 2006</ref> ...e|Roman]] architect [[Vitruvius]] through the study of classical buildings and structures. ...

...reign was marked by the violent uprisings of areas conquered by his father and the abandonment of several important cities (primarily in {{Nowrap|1=[[Sume | title = Early Mesopotamia: society and economy at the dawn of history, reprint edition ...