Mesopotamia Links

Recommended sites for web assignment have Square bullets

Interactive/Fun sites have blue arrows

Overview sites with lots of summary info

http://www.mrdowling.com/603mesopotamia.html - Good overview site on a couple different topics.

http://www.penncharter.com/Student/meso/index.html - Great overview site created by sixth graders.

http://www.usfca.edu/westciv/Mesochro.html - A very basic timeline from 9000 to 500 B.C, for Sumerians, Babylonians and Assyrians.

http://www.crystalinks.com/meso.html - A great timeline for Mesopotamia with lots of other information.

http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/ - British Museum’s site that includes fun information and games!

http://mesopotamia.lib.uchicago.edu/ - Great information on daily life. Includes interactive archaeological displays!

Building and artwork in Mesopotamia

http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/ziggurats/home_set.html - An amazing site you can use to explore the parts of a Ziggurat and play a game to see how efficiently you can build one of these ancient temples.

http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/HIGH/OI_Museum_Mesopotamia.html - Artwork from Mesopotamia

http://unmuseum.mus.pa.us/hangg.htm - Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

http://www.sd83.bc.ca/stu/9711/jlk2w2.htm - A brief historical description of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

http://www.theplumber.com/history.html -The history of plumbing in Babylonia.

ALL about writing and counting in Mesopotamia

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/GLOSSARY/CUNEI.HTM - Description of Cuneiform writing. .

http://www.17webplace.com/translit/cuniform.html - Type any message you want and get it translated into Cuneiform.

http://www.phys.virginia.edu/classes/109N/lectures/babylon.html - Counting everything in Babylon.

Stories from the Bible – A translation and explanation of Sennacherib’s tablet (in cuneiform – with translation ability)

Beliefs and stories from Ancient Mesopotamia

http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cbsiren/assyrbabyl-faq.html#Lahmu - Mythology/religion of Mesopotamia

http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/MESO/GILG.HTM - The Story of Gilgamesh in English.

http://library.thinkquest.org/15215/History/folklore_gilgamesh2.html Choose what happens in the Gilgamesh Epic

The law code of Hammurabi

http://leb.net/~farras/history/hammurabi.htm - The complete Law Code of Hammurabi.

Everything Else Mesopotamian

http://www.gamecabinet.com/history/Ur.html - Take a look at a Mesopotamian royal board game.

http://www.learner.org/exhibits/collapse/mesopotamia.html - How one city in Mesopotamia might have collapsed.

http://www.sd83.bc.ca/stu/9711/jlk2w2.htm - Learn about the city of Ur and how its remains were discovered.

http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/lesson2.html - Women in Mesopotamia.

http://viator.ucs.indiana.edu/~ancmed/meso.HTM - Medicine in Mesopotamia.

http://observe.ivv.nasa.gov/nasa/exhibits/ubar/ubar_0.html - Finding a City in the Sand.