Medical texts from ancient Mesopotamia provide prescriptions and practices for curing all manner of ailments, wounds, and diseases. #History #Sumerians #Mesopotamia #Inanna #Marriage #Sexuality #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-688-en/

Among the many contributions to world culture credited to Mesopotamia is an object so familiar to people in the modern world that few pause to consider its origin: the dog collar. #History #Sumer #Mesopotamia #Inanna #Gula #Dog #Pets #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-1175-en/

The lives of women in ancient Mesopotamia cannot be characterized as easily as with other civilizations, owing to the different cultures over time. #History #Sumerians #SasanianEmpire #SargonOfAkkad #Mesopotamia #Inanna #Hammurabi #Enheduanna #AchaemenidEmpire #Women #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2081-en/

🪷 29 March is one of the ancient festivals of #Ishtar / #Inanna, goddess of fertility, love, war and righteous vengeance. She rules the planet #Venus. She is often accompanied by lions and serpents. You want her on your side 4SURE! 🪷

Inanna and Ebih is a Sumerian/Akkadian poem attributed to Enheduanna (circa 2300 BCE), daughter of Sargon of Akkad. #History #Ur #Sumer #Inanna #Enheduanna #Akkad #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2194-en/

Enheduanna (circa 2300 BCE) is the world's first author and was the daughter (either literally or figuratively) of the great empire-builder Sargon of Akkad (reign 2334-2279 BCE). #History #Writing #Ur #Temple #Sumer #Script #SargonOfAkkad #Religion #Mesopotamia #Inanna #Enheduanna #Akkad #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-190-en/

The Hymn to Inanna (also known as The Great-Hearted Mistress) is a passionate devotional work by the poet and high priestess Enheduanna (circa 2300 BCE), the first author in the world known by name. #History #Sumer #Inanna #Enheduanna #Akkad #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2109-en/

Sargon of Akkad (reign 2334-2279 BCE) was the king of the Akkadian Empire of Mesopotamia, the first multinational empire in history, who united the disparate kingdoms of the region under a central authority. #History #SargonOfAkkad #SargonII #Naram-Sin #Mesopotamia #Inanna #Hurrians #AssyrianWarfare #Anu #Akkad #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-625-en/

The Akkadian poet Enheduanna (circa 2300 BCE) is the world's first author known by name and was the daughter of Sargon of Akkad (Sargon the Great, reign 2334-2279 BCE). #History #Writing #Ur #Sumer #Script #SargonOfAkkad #Mesopotamia #Literature #Inanna #Enheduanna #Akkad #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-10021-en/

The city of Akkad was the seat of the Akkadian Empire (2350/2334-2154 BCE), the first multinational political entity in the world, founded by Sargon the Great, who unified Mesopotamia under his rule and set the model for later Mesopotamian kings to follow or attempt to surpass. #History #Uruk #Ur #Sumer #Inanna #Eridu #Enheduanna #Akkad #AkkadianEmpire #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-363-en/