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So I’ve decided that I will be dedicating two blog posts to Near Eastern art. Today’s blog post will be focusing on Sumerian Art (4000-2000 B.C.) and the other blog post will focus on Babylonian art.

As in so much of Sumerian art, the facial expressions of the statues tell a story of their own. Some of the worshippers are strained and goggle-eyed; others are composed and serene. The Sumerians ...

The National Museum of Korea has set up its Mesopotamian Gallery and presents the exhibition "Mesopotamia: Great Cultural Innovations, Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art." As the first ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has returned an ancient Sumerian sculpture to Iraq following an internal review by the institution, which recently appointed a head of provenance ...

Sir Leonard Woolley's lecture on “The Racial Elements in Sumerian Art History” before the Royal Society of Arts on February 19 (J. Roy. Soc. Arts, 84, April 3, 1936) afforded an example of the ...