Some of the most important pieces of art came from the Near East. We can see that in the last post with the religious ... King Hammurabi of Babylon came into power in 1792 B.C. after having defeated ...

So I’ve decided that I will be dedicating two blog posts to Near Eastern art. Today’s blog post will be focusing on Sumerian Art (4000-2000 B.C.) and the other blog post will focus on Babylonian art.

The 3,000-year-old Babylonian artifact has puzzled archaeologists for centuries, but in the past few weeks, experts have ...