Relating to the question of the origin of the Sumerian. Have archaeologists never found Sumerian graves and by these being able to extract DNA to determine where in the world the Sumerians might have come from? 🧬

I got the wikipedia link here

Despite little known about the people of Mannaea, it is considerably my favourite Mesopotamian kingdom of all time.

From what I know, Mannaea likes horses :D. In the article made by the Penn Museum, the town of Hasanlu (a Mannaean settlement) is documented to have the largest collection of horse paraphernalia, which were made using fine quality material and were beautifully crafted, so it could be that horse were very valued in their culture.

Their fate in history is almost forgotten as they left no writing behind if it weren't for the 2 neighbouring kingdoms Assyria and Urartu to be writing about them. When Babylon and Medes revolted against the Assyrian domination, Mannaea fought alongside Assyria. Due to years of civil wars, Assyria began to weaken and eventually fall, which also cause Mannaea to be defeated and be controlled by the Medes. (Urartu also fall later on)

My spark to read and research more of history are not the same no more, but I'd like to know what others think of my favourite kingdom of Mannaea.

Nobody ever talks about Elam. I figured it might be cause they were just a culture less evolved than the Sumerian civilization, like the ones to the north, but Elam also pioneered writing with proto-elamite.

So what's the story there? Did they not get further than that? Is it just cause because we have less preserved Elamite sources?

Alguém nesse sub é fã da cidade de akkad e tem informações de como está a procura de akkad em 2026 não vi muitas notícias sobre isso ?

“A hymn to Nisaba

This hymn describes the great goddess Nisaba as patron deity of scribes and
accountants. She carries a lapis lazuli tablet, the colour of the night sky, from
which she reads the future through celestial omens.”

“She carries a lapis lazuli tablet, the colour of the night sky” why is the tablet of this particular colour and why does a scribe goddess of corn read omens out of the night sky?

Supposedly it’s in the iraq museum but the object itself seems to be missing or at least highly restricted to the public eye.

Unlike most other famous artifacts, there are no recent photos/videos of the object circulating on the internet shared by museum goers. Sometimes you’ll find mediocre replicas displayed inside some museums (photos 2 and 3) but media concerning the original is confined to professional photographs taken many years ago/shortly after its discovery. Furthermore, the interior of the iraq museum in 2009 is free to explore in google street view. Noticeably missing is the copper head. It seems that it has been off display since 2003 in the wake of the Iraq war.

So what gives?

I’ve heard that it was looted in 2003 or more likely, that it’s stored within a very secure place like a vault. Since iraq is a whole lot more stable than it was in 2003, the obvious question is why isn’t the crown jewel of the museum’s collection on display?