It’s a bit of a cliché to say empires rise and fall, but have you ever wondered what the oldest empire in recorded history was? Well that title seems to go to the Akkadian Empire, the first ...

described these ancient tablets as “spreadsheets of empire.” Girsu held religious importance in Sumerian times as a sanctuary ...

History's first recorded empire was the Akkadians, established by a man called Sargon in around the 24th century BCE. The Semitic Akkadian peoples would establish the modus operandi for the way ...

The Akkadian Empire (ca. 2340–2198 b.c.) represented ... Among other innovations, the empire’s founder, Sargon (reigned ca. 2340–2285 B.C.), instituted Ishtar, the Semitic goddess of war ...

“Sargon developed this new form of governance ... showing fierce governmental oversight by the Akkadian Empire. “They note absolutely everything down,” Rey tells the Observer.

The Akkadian ruler Sargon created the world’s first empire by unifying several Mesopotamian city-states in the Akkadian north and the Sumerian south. Enheduanna’s name was likely taken on when the ...

The Mesopotamian tablets from the third millennium BC contain similar words to refer to the conquests of Sargon of Akkad, the creator of an Akkadian Empire that extended from Elam (a kingdom in the ...

probably Rimush I of Akkad (second king of the Akkadian Empire and son of Sargon and his consort Tashlultum), is considered one of the earliest life-sized sculptures made using the hollow-core ...

Enheduanna’s work celebrates the gods and the power of the Akkadian empire, which ruled present ... and identifying her as the daughter of the king Sargon of Akkad, the wife of the moon god ...