Assyriology

Uruk, the archeological site known today as Warka, was an ancient city in the Near East or West Asia, located east of the current bed of the Euphrates River, on an ancient, now-dried channel of the river in Muthanna Governorate, Iraq. The site lies 93 kilometers (58 miles) northwest of ancient Ur, 108 kilometers (67 miles) southeast of ancient Nippur, and 24 kilometers (15 miles) northwest of ancient Larsa.

thumb|270x270px|The Mesopotamian god [[Ninurta with his thunderbolts pursues the divine monster Anzû stealing the Tablet of Destinies from Enlil's sanctuary, Austen Henry Layard Monuments of Nineveh, 2nd Series, 1853]] thumb|Reconstruction (architecture)|Reconstruction of the [[Babylonian Ishtar Gate in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin]] Assyriology (from Greek , Assyriā; and , -logia), also known as Cuneiform studies or Ancient Near East studies, is the archaeological, anthropological, historical, and linguistic study of the cultures that used cuneiform writing. The field covers Pre Dynastic Mes

thumb|A map showing the generally defined area of the Fertile Crescent in red Panbabylonism (also known as Panbabylonianism) was the school of thought that considered the cultures and religions of the Middle East and civilization in general to be ultimately derived from Babylonian myths which in turn they viewed as being based on Babylonian astronomy, often in hidden ways.

bilingual inscription from Anatolia in 8th century BC

solar eclipse mentioned in a text dating to the reign of Mursili II that could be of great importance for the chronology of the Hittite Empire

thumb|300px|Tower of the Jade Emperor (玉皇阁 Yùhuánggé), central pavilion of a temple to the supreme godhead, in Guide, [[Qinghai. Jade Emperor shrines are frequently built on raised platforms, especially in western China.]] Sino-Babylonianism is the theory (now rejected by most scholars) that in the third millennium B.C., the civilization which existed in the Babylonian region provided the essential elements of material civilization and language to what is now China. Albert Terrien de Lacouperie (1845–1894) was the first theorist to hypothesize that a massive migration by Babylonians brought th