Mesopotamia: Assyria, Neo-Babylonia, and Persia

The ancient Near East

ELAM

▪SusaPersepolis▪

Lion Gate at Hattusa (in modern-day Turkey), ca. 1400 BC. Built as an entrance to a Hittite citadel

Stele with law code of Hammurabi, found at Susa. 1780 BC.

The ancient Near East

ELAM

▪SusaPersepolis▪

Reconstruction drawing of Dur Sharrukin, the citadel of Sargon II. 8th century BC

Lamassu from Dur Sharrukin. 8th c. BC

Lion Gate at Hattusa (in modern-day Turkey), ca. 1400 BC. Built as an entrance to a Hittite citadel

Lamassu from Dur Sharrukin. 8th c. BC

Ashurbanipal palace in Nineveh. Reliefs date to the 7th c. BC

Ashurbanipal palace in Nineveh. Reliefs date to the 7th c. BC

The ancient Near East

ELAM

▪SusaPersepolis▪

Neo-Babylonian Ishtar Gate of Babylon. 6th c. BC. Now in Museum in Berlin.

The ancient Near East

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Aerial view of Persepolis, Persia (today Iran), ca. 520 BC

Persepolis, Terrace of the royal audience hall (apadana), processional frieze, ca. 520 BC

The ancient Near East

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Palace of Shapur I, Ctesiphon, Iraq, ca. 250 AD

Triumpf of Shapur I, life-size rock carving at Bishapur, Iran, ca. 260 AD