Ancient Mesopotamia

Euphrates – Tigris

Assyriology

Cities / Empires

Sumer: Uruk – Ur – Eridu

Kish – Lagash – Nippur

Akkadian Empire: Agade

Babylon – Isin – Susa

Assyria: Assur – Nineveh

Nuzi – Nimrud

Babylonia – Chaldea –

Elam – Amorites

Hurrians – Mitanni – Kassites

Chronology

Kings of Sumer

Kings of Assyria

Kings of Babylon

Language

Cuneiform script

Sumerian – Akkadian

Elamite – Hurrian

Mythology

Enuma Elish

Gilgamesh – Marduk

The city of Asshur (or Assur or Ashur) on the Tigris was originally a colony of Babylonia, and later became the first capital city of Assyria, to which it gave its name. The United Nations declared Asshur a World Heritage Site