A sinuous journey from Caves to Cathedrals For this project, I chose to create an audio presentation highlighting different religious […] Read More
Category: Ancient Mesopotamia in the Modern World
A Hero for History You have heard of Superman, Iron Man, Bat Man, Spiderman… the list goes on. What do […] Read More
Hi, my name is Carly Kleinberg and I am apart of the Class of 2024. I hope to major in environmental studies and minor in architecture.
The cuneiform tablets located in Colgate’s Special Collections have served a variety of interesting educational purposes throughout the years. The […] Read More
The Divide Have you ever entered a museum as a kid, completely clueless about the significance of the artifacts, yet […] Read More
February 28th, 2021 by Lauren Sulger “The Mona Lisa of Mesopotamia” The mask of Warka is known to be the […] Read More
In the image above, some of you may not know the specific figure that Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein is looking […] Read More
When the United States chose to invade Iraq, they chose to preserve these cultural sites rather than the lives of […] Read More
Artist Michael Rakowitz’s new exhibition is full of gorgeous paper mache recreations of lost Iraqi artifacts, alongside major gaps in […] Read More
Imagine an ancient world where women were equal in status and influence to their male counterparts amongst their tribes. A […] Read More
For most of my childhood, I grew up in a quintessential suburban neighborhood in New Jersey. The streets were filled […] Read More
Born and raised as a child of 21st century America, I was taught to hate Iraq. The field where my […] Read More
Archaic, the Iraq pavilion at the Venice Biennale, was presented by the Ruya Foundation in 2017. The pavilion includes works […] Read More
Beware, Hammurabi’s ruthless law code hasn’t been safely locked away in the dustbins of history! Humans being humans, we have […] Read More
(Allegedly) found on a wall in dwellings in Çatalhöyük, Turkey, this painting could be the first known landscape painting done by […] Read More
In recent years, calls for the return of cultural relics acquired during the expansionist period have roused repercussions in European […] Read More
Human? Lion? Mythic-woman lioness? How can this tiny 5,000-year-old limestone anthropomorphic sculpture be so powerful yet so modern at the […] Read More
It’s the 9th century BCE, and you’re an Assyrian king. As you walk into the palace built for you, you […] Read More
Agatha Christie had an interesting involvement in Mesopotamian archaeological digs and took much inspiration from them for her famous novels. […] Read More
Forget those basic Pinterest boards! King Ashurnasirpal II built a palace in the site of Nimrud where the walls of […] Read More
The Statue of Gudea in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Gudea of Lagash Detroit Institute of Arts have […] Read More
Iraqi National Museum Deputy Director Muhsin Hasan Grieves the Loss of Irreplaceable Artifacts Wild Beasts Escape Their Spotlight On the […] Read More
