Twenty-five Years of Mesopotamian Discovery, 1932-1956

Adad-nirari Adad-nirari III akropolis amulets Anatolia ancient Archaeology in Iraq Arpachiyah Assur-bani-pal Assur-nasir-pal Assyrian Aswad Babylonian Baghdad Balikh valley Brak bricks bronze building Burnt Palace Calah century B.C. Chagar Bazar clay contemporary courtyard cuneiform decorated depicted discovered discovery district documents doubt dynasty early dynastic eastern engraved Erech Esarhaddon Euphrates evidence excavation Expedition eye-idols Eye-Temple Ezida flanked fragments goddess Habur Habur ware Halaf culture Halaf period head historical houses Hurrians inscribed interesting Iran Iraq Museum Iraq VIII ivory Jidle king later Layard Mesopotamia Mesopotamian metres miles millennium B.C. Mitanni mound mud-brick Nabu Temple Naram-Sin neolithic Nimrud Nineveh Ninevite Ninurta North-West Palace objects occupation once painted pottery panel perhaps plaques pots pottery prehistoric probably represented river royal sanctuary Sargon settlement Shalmaneser III sherds stone style Syria tablets Tepe throne-room Tiglath-pileser III Ubaid period Uruk period vases village walls whilst Ziggurrat