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Sumerian war chariots deconstructed. What did a Sumerian war chariot really look like? "The Horse, the Wheel and Language, How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes shaped the Modern World", David W Anthony, 2007; Ancient Egyptian chariots: history, design, use. Ancient Egypt: an introduction to its history and culture.
The names of over 3,000 Mesopotamian deities have been recovered from cuneiform texts. [19] [16] Many of these are from lengthy lists of deities compiled by ancient Mesopotamian scribes. [19] [20] The longest of these lists is a text entitled An = Anum, a Babylonian scholarly work listing the names of over 2,000 deities.
The name derives from Tell al-'Ubaid in Southern Mesopotamia, where the earliest large excavation of Ubaid period material was conducted initially by Henry Hall and later by Leonard Woolley. [ 28 ] In South Mesopotamia the period is the earliest known period on the alluvial plain although it is likely earlier periods exist obscured under the ...
People of Mesopotamia during ancient history. Subcategories. This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total. A. Akkadian people (1 C, 15 P)
Shamash (Akkadian: šamaš [a]), also known as Utu (Sumerian: d utu ð’€ð’Œ“ "Sun" [2]) was the ancient Mesopotamian sun god.He was believed to see everything that happened in the world every day, and was therefore responsible for justice and protection of travelers.
Nergal, a Sumerian deity of the netherworld, who had a prominent temple in Urkesh in the earliest period of recorded Hurrian history. [49] Possibly a stand-in for a god whose Hurrian name is presently unknown. [50] Ea, Hayya, the god of wisdom, who was also Sumerian in origin. [51] Allani, goddess of the netherworld. [52] Ishara, a goddess of ...
The Maryannu were a caste of chariot-mounted hereditary warrior nobility that existed in many of the societies of the Ancient Near East during the Bronze Age. Maryannu is a Hurrianized Indo-Aryan word, formed by adding Hurrian suffix -nni to Indo-Aryan root márya , meaning "(young) man" [ 1 ] or a "young warrior". [ 2 ]
The god Marduk and his dragon Mušá¸«uššu. Mesopotamian religion encompasses the religious beliefs (concerning the gods, creation and the cosmos, the origin of man, and so forth) and practices of the civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia, particularly Sumer, Akkad, Assyria and Babylonia between circa 6000 BC [1] and 400 AD.