Here, both stories are brought to life through incredible objects from the collections of the British Museum. At both sites, Iraqi and international archaeologists are working together to unearth amazing ancient remains that will be on display in Iraq. At Qalatga Darband, an ancient fortress built around 2, years ago, has been discovered. Sumer lay in the southern tip of a large region called Mesopotamia.
This covered most of modern Iraq, north-east Syria and parts of south-east Turkey. Farmers settled in northern Mesopotamia as early as 8, BC, but avoided the south as the land there was too dry. Around 5, BC, enterprising people created ways of watering the land and growing healthy crops, and soon more people moved to the south.
Sumerian people believed that their cities belonged to the gods. The statue shows Gudea dressed as a priest in long robes, with his head shaven. His hands are held together in an act of worship and his eyes are wide open in praise. It is made of a dark, hard stone called dolerite, which Gudea had specially brought to him from the mountains of modern-day Oman, over one thousand miles away.
The Sumerians believed that Girsu was the home of a heroic god named Ningirsu, and named their city after him. King Gudea claimed that Ningirsu spoke to him in a dream, ordering him to build a temple.
Eager to please the great god, Gudea constructed a magnificent building made of mudbricks and wood, decorated with precious metals. A tower stood on either side of the huge entrance gate. It is this temple that archaeologists have now discovered. In Sumerian mythology, the hero god Ningirsu is famous for fighting a gigantic lion-headed eagle known as the Thunderbird. The Thunderbird was a fearsome beast who swept through the air like an enormous storm cloud, creating violent blasts of wind with every beat of its enormous wings.
Its body flashed with lightning and its mighty roar was thunder, rumbling across the skies. One day, the terrible Thunderbird stole the Tablet of Destinies from the supreme god, Enlil, and hid it on a mountaintop.
This tablet was extremely powerful: whoever possessed it ruled the universe. Ningirsu was chosen to rescue the precious tablet. Many important discoveries in Ancient Iraq have been made by explorers from here in north-east England. Here are their stories. In he became one of the first Europeans to visit Iraq, travelling as part of a European commission to settle a border dispute between the Turks and Persians.
He was the first person to excavate at Warka, which turned out to be the site of Uruk, an early Sumerian city and home of the legendary hero Gilgamesh. Plenty of these are still in the collections of the Natural History Society of Northumbria, alongside letters from Loftus, describing his travels in Iraq. As an explorer, archaeologist and member of the British secret intelligence service, she travelled and worked extensively in the region.
Bell worked tirelessly for Iraq, setting up a museum in Baghdad and writing a law to keep half of all excavated finds in the country. This was invaluable when it came to one of the biggest Iraqi digs of all — the ancient Sumerian city of Ur. Thanks to Bell, Iraq kept many of its best finds, displayed in the new museum. Bell knew leading archaeologist, Sir Leonard Woolley and had met with him at Ur. He also had a north-east connection: his first major excavation had been the Roman site of Corbridge in Northumberland.
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The discovery of the ruins in the Mosul Dam reservoir on the banks of the Tigris River inspired a spontaneous archeological dig that will improve understanding of the Mittani Empire, one of the least-researched empires of the Ancient Near East, the Kurdish-German team of researchers said in a press release. The palace would have originally stood just 65 feet from the river on an elevated terrace.
A terrace wall of mud bricks was later added to stabilize the building, adding to to the imposing architecture. Some of the walls are more than two meters high, and various rooms have plastered walls, she added.
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