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The architecture of Mesopotamia is ancient architecture of the region of the Tigris–Euphrates river system (also known as Mesopotamia), encompassing several distinct cultures and spanning a period from the 10th millennium BC (when the first permanent structures were built) to the 6th century BC.
The study of ancient Mesopotamian architecture is based on available archaeological evidence, pictorial representation of buildings, and texts on building practices. Scholarly literature usually concentrates on temples, palaces, city walls and gates, and other monumental buildings, but occasionally one finds works on residential architecture as ...
After Mesopotamia fell to the Persian Achaemenid Empire, which had much simpler artistic traditions, Mesopotamian art was, with Ancient Greek art, the main influence on the cosmopolitan Achaemenid style that emerged, [102] and many ancient elements were retained in the area even in the Hellenistic art that succeeded the conquest of the region ...
Pages in category "Sumerian art and architecture" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. ... Ancient Mesopotamian units of measurement;
Abbasid architecture developed in the Abbasid Caliphate (750 to 1258 CE), primarily in its heartland of Mesopotamia ().The great changes of the Abbasid era can be characterized as at the same time political, geo-political and cultural.
A distinctive feature of Urartian architecture was its ability to combine the monumentalism of Mesopotamian structures with the lightness of Syro-Hittite forms. [5] During the peak of Urartu's prominence (9th–6th centuries BCE), architecture held a dominant position in Urartian art. [5]
Considered one of the first cities, the site of Uruk – modern-day Warka in Iraq – shows evidence of social stratification, institutionalized religion, a centralized administration, and what art historians would categorize as high art and architecture, [1]: 41 the first in the long history of the art of Mesopotamia. Much of the art of Uruk ...
A remarkable example is a List of Professions (ancestor of the series Lú.A, which is known from the 3rd millennium BC), in which various different types of craftsmen are listed (potters, weavers, carpenters, etc.), indicating the numerous types of specialist workers in late Uruk. [128] The causes and course of the origins of writing are disputed.