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Ancient Near Eastc. 9000-539 BCE
HOME OF THE WORLD’S THREE
MAJOR RELIGIONS.
Anatolian Goddess giving birth, from Çatal Hüyük, Turkey Neolithic Era c. 6500-5700 BCE
c. 6500-5700 BCE
War Side and Peace Side of the Standard of Ur, Royal cemetery, c. 2600 BCE, Sumerian
Presentations of offering to Inanna, from Uruk Sumerian, c. 3200-3000 BCE
Female Head from UrukMesopotamian culturec. 3500-3000 BCE
White Temple on its ziggurat (raised up or high, imitation mountains), Uruk, Mesopotamia, Unique to Mesopotamia, c3500-3000 BCE
Cylinder Seal and Impression, Uruk, c. 3500-3000 BCE
Statues from Abu Temple at Tell Asmar, Early Sumer dynastic Period c2700-2500 BCE
Lyre Sound box and inlay, from the tomb of Queen Puabi, Urc2685 BCE
Head of an Akkadian ruler, possibly Sargon I, Nineveh, Akkad c. 2300-2100 BCE
Victory stele (an upright stone marker) of Naram-Sin, from Susa, c. 2254-2218 BCE
Head of Gudea, from Lagash, Neo Sumerian Culture, c. 2100-1800/1900 BCE
Gudea with the Temple Plan, from Lagash, Neo Sumerian Culture, c. 2100-1800/1900 BCE
The Law Code of Hammurabi, Susa, capital of Elam, now Iran, c. 1792-1750 BCE, Babylonian
The End