Eridu Genesis
“Eridu Genesis” provides a partial English translation of a Sumerian creation and flood myth. This 1981 version was written by Thorkild Jacobsen and was where he coined the term “Eridu […]
Dur-Sharrukin – WikiPedia
Dur-Sharrukin (“Fortress of Sargon”; Arabic: دور شروكين, Syriac: ܕܘܪ ܫܪܘ ܘܟܢ), present day Khorsabad, was the Assyrian capital in the time of Sargon II of Assyria. Khorsabad is a village in northern Iraq, 15 km northeast of Mosul. The great city […]
Paul-Émile Botta
Paul-Émile Botta (born Dec. 6, 1802, Turin, Piedmont [Italy]—died March 29, 1870, Achères, France) was a French consul and archaeologist whose momentous discovery of the palace of the Assyrian king Sargon II at Dur Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad), Iraq, in 1843, initiated the large-scale […]
Anunnaki – Wikipedia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Four copper-alloy foundation figures depicting ancient Mesopotamian gods wearing characteristic horned crowns (c. 2130 BC) The Anunnaki (Sumerian: 𒀭𒀀𒉣𒈾, also transcribed as Anunaki, Annunaki, Anunna, Ananaki and other variations) are a group of deities of the ancient Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians and Babylonians. In the […]