Babylon, the ancient Mesopotamian civilization, existed from roughly 2000 B.C. to 540 B.C.

“Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins” coincides with a long-running Villa installation of Assyrian carved-stone reliefs, on loan until September 2022 from London’s British Museum.

Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins presents a rich panorama of ancient Mesopotamia's history, from its earliest prehistoric cultures to its conquest by Alexander the Great in 331 BCE. This catalogue ...

I n Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins, the new exhibition at the Getty Villa, the Getty does indeed start at the very beginning.At a place in what we now call Iraq, between the Tigris and Euphrates ...

Ancient Mesopotamia refers to a region within the Middle East, primarily between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, where several large and powerful civilizations thrived for thousands of years ...

About 4,500 years ago, an image of the Sumerian storm god Ningirsu was engraved on a silver vessel now on view in the Getty Villa Museum exhibition “Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins ...