A brief history of the Fertile Crescent 3000BCE – 570BCE (5)

We left our story around the year 1200 BC with the collapse of the Late Bronze Age civilisations. This was … More

A brief history of the Fertile Crescent 3000BCE – 570BCE (4)

By 1400 BCE Egypt had established control over most of the coastal lands and began to move north conquering the … More

The political structure of the area was disrupted around the year 1750 BCE with the arrival of the Mittani, an … More

Around 1850 BCE, we find the first records of a tribal people called the Amuru, who began to migrate into … More

The fertile crescent stretches from the northernmost tip of the Persian Gulf along the River systems of the Euphrates and … More

Uruk continued to be a prominent and influential city throughout the third millennia. When King Eannutum established the first proto- … More

There is a legend in Sumerian mythology that Inanna went to the sacred city of Eridu where she stole a … More

Aside from the Temples themselves, the Temple district also contains several other buildings, some of which have been identified as … More

What then do we know about city and its structure from the excavations have taken place city seems to been … More

The start of the Uruk period can be dated to around 4100 BCE when there is a notable increase in … More