- Wikipedia: Mesopotamia
Historical overview of Mesopotamia, covering language, writing, science, religion, culture, economy, government, and other aspects of ancient civilizations in this region.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia
- British Museum: Mesopotamia
Exhibit exploring Mesopotamia, including the geography, mythology, and history of the Assyrian, Babylonian, and Sumerian civilizations.
www.mesopotamia.co.uk
- Code of Hammurabi (6)
dir.yahoo.com/.../Mesopotamia/Code_of_Hammurabi
- Epic of Gilgamesh (10)
dir.yahoo.com/.../Mesopotamia/Epic_of_Gilgamesh
- Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Mesopotamia
Contains information on Sumeria, Akkadia, Babylonia, and other civilizations that flourished in the geographic region of Mesopotamia.
www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook03.html
- Mr. Dowling's Electronic Passport: Mesopotamia
Sections on the Fertile Crescent area include the Sumerians, the Assyrians, the calendar, writing, and Hammurabi.
www.mrdowling.com/603mesopotamia.html
- Gateways To Babylon
Tribute to Mesopotamia, with features and links on myths, religion, and gods and goddesses.
www.gatewaystobabylon.com
- History Link 101: Ancient Mesopotamia
Directory of sites about Mesopotamia in the areas of art, biography, daily life, maps, pictures, and research.
www.historylink101.com/ancient_mesopotamia.htm
- Ancient Mesopotamia: This History, Our History
Interactive exhibit on ancient Mesopotamia, considered to be the cradle of civilization. From the Mesopotamian collection of the Oriental Institute Museum of the University of Chicago.
mesopotamia.lib.uchicago.edu
- Babylonian and Egyptian Mathematics
From MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Babylonian_and_Egyptian.htm...
- History of Plumbing: Babylonia
From theplumber.com.
www.theplumber.com/history.html
- Old Persian Texts
www.avesta.org/op/op.htm
- Catholic Encyclopedia: Babylonia
Covering aspects of geography, early history, the first and Chaldean empires.
www.newadvent.org/cathen/02179b.htm
- Contracts from Mesopotamia, c. 2300 - 428 BCE
Ancient History Sourcebook.
www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/mesopotamia-contracts.html
- Babylonia and Near Eastern Resources
From Restoring Christian Keys.
www.piney.com/BabIndex.html
- Hanging Gardens of Babylon@
Read about the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the terraced gardens that are often named as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Browse descriptions of the Gardens from ancient travelers and modern archaeologists, and see artists' renderings of how they might have appeared.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Seven_Wonders_of_the_Ancient_World/Hanging_Gardens_of_Babylon
- Woolley and the Great Flood
Examines the Mesopotamian flood tradition.
mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/specex/ur/ur-flood.htm
- History of the Ancient Near East
Offers details about sites in ancient Israel, Iraq, Turkey, and elsewhere.
ancientneareast.tripod.com/index.html
- Counting in Babylon
Weights, measures, numbering systems, fractions, and more.
www.phys.virginia.edu/classes/109N/lectures/babylon.html
- Greek Reports of Babylonia, Chaldea, and Assyria
From the Ancient History Sourcebook.
www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/greek-babylon.html
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