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The art of Uruk encompasses the sculptures, seals, pottery, architecture, and other arts produced in Uruk, an ancient city in southern Mesopotamia that thrived during the Uruk period around 4200-3000 BCE. [1]: 40 The city continued to develop into the Early Dynastic Period (Mesopotamia) around 2900-2350 BCE. [2]
History and culture of crafts in embroidery, carving, papermaking, painting, printing, and calligraphy. Tamba-Sasayama [88] [89] Japan: 2015 Ancient history of unique tanba-yaki pottery, a source of local pride. Tetouan [90] [91] Morocco: 2017 History of crafts such as Zellige, Taajira embroidery, encrusted and painted wood and wrought ironwork.
Ancient Greek crafts (or the craftsmanship in Ancient Greece) was an important but largely undervalued, economic activity. It involved all activities of manufacturing transformation of raw materials, agricultural or not, both in the framework of the oikos and in workshops of size that gathered several tens of workers.
The original city of Uruk was situated southwest of the ancient Euphrates River, now dry. Currently, the site of Warka is northeast of the modern Euphrates river. The change in position was caused by a shift in the Euphrates at some point in history, which, together with salination due to irrigation, may have contributed to the decline of Uruk.
After Mesopotamia fell to the Persian Achaemenid Empire, which had much simpler artistic traditions, Mesopotamian art was, with Ancient Greek art, the main influence on the cosmopolitan Achaemenid style that emerged, [102] and many ancient elements were retained in the area even in the Hellenistic art that succeeded the conquest of the region ...
Iraq's art has a deep heritage that extends back in time to ancient Mesopotamian art. Iraq has one of the longest written traditions in the world. Maqam traditions in music and calligraphy have survived into the modern day. [2] However, the continuity of Iraq's arts culture has been subject to the vicissitudes of invading armies for centuries.
The sack of the city by the Herules in 267 and by the Visigoths under their king Alaric I (r. 395–410) in 396, however, dealt a heavy blow to the city's fabric and fortunes, and Athens was henceforth confined to a small fortified area that embraced a fraction of the ancient city. [29] The emperor Justinian I (r.
Scarre, Chris (1999) The Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World. Thames and Hudson. Schele, Linda (1976), Accession Iconography of Chan-Bahlum in the Group of the Cross at Palenque. In The Art, Iconography, and Dynastic History of Palenque, Part III. Proceedings of the Segunda Mesa Redonda de Palenque, ed. Merle Greene Robertson, 9–34.