Mesopotamia Civilization Begins April 21–August 16, 2021 at the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades.
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April 22, 2021
Calendar Wall Panel with a Striding Lion, Neo-Babylonian period, 605-562 BC, glazed brick. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Fletcher Fund, 1931
Mesopotamia-the land "between the rivers" in modern-day Iraq-was home to the ancient Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians.
Among their many achievements are the creation of the earliest known script (cuneiform), the formation of the first cities, the development of advanced astronomical and mathematical knowledge, and spectacular artistic and literary accomplishments.
The exhibition covers three millennia from the first cities in about 3200 BC to Alexander the Great's conquest of Babylon in 331 BC.
Exhibition organized by the Musée du Louvre, Paris, and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
Calendar Mesopotamia- Civilization Begins
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