Archaeological discoveries in Iraq

ancient cylinder covered with Akkadian cuneiform script

library

Jarmo ( or , also ''Qal'at Jarmo'') is a prehistoric archeological site located in modern Iraqi Kurdistan on the foothills of the Zagros Mountains. It lies at an altitude of 800 m above sea-level in a belt of oak and pistachio woodlands in the Adhaim River watershed. Excavations revealed that Jarmo was an agricultural community dating back to around 7090 BC. It was broadly contemporary with other important Neolithic sites such as Jericho in the Southern Levant and Çatalhöyük in Anatolia.

approximately 4,500 years old, constructed in the form of a hollow wooden box with scenes of war and peace represented on each side through elaborately inlaid mosaics

clay tablet from ancient Babylon considered to be the oldest known written complaint

black limestone Assyrian sculpture with inscriptions

6th century BCE Babylonian clay tablet written in Akkadian with a labeled depiction of the known world

historical and mythical limestone account / depiction

ancient musical instruments found in Iraq

sculptures excavated in Ur, in southern Iraq

assyrian palace relief

ancient Assyrian stone monolith

creation myth

Babylonian stone tablet

ancient prism inscribed with Sumerian kings

collection of mesopotamian statues

silver vase dedicated to Ningirsu by Entemena

statue from circa 2340-2200 BCE

Assyrian palace reliefs

sculpture

cuneiform cylinder written by Neo-Assyrian king Ashurbanipal

group of ivory carvings dating back to the 9th and 7th centuries BC

early Neolithic settlement in Iraq

lagash cylinders

cuneiform inscription

ancient Assyria lion statues

Ancient love poem about sacred marriage

ancient copper sculpture from Ur, Iraq

mesopotamian inscribed stone objects

pendant in the shape of a dog, dating to around 3,300 B.C. - 3,100 B.C.

archaeological artefact

a devotional cylinder written in traditional Akkadian by Antiochus I Soter, c. 250 BCE

Article of Inanna temple

one of the oldest stringed instruments ever discovered