BASRA CITY Museum and Cultural Area The Cultural Centre is located at the beginning of the Corniche (the promenade along the Shatt el Arab). During the Saddam Period in this area several palaces have been built in order to host Saddam Hussein and several of his ge[...]
Archive for luglio, 2015
luglio 26th, 2015 - 11:12 § in Archaeostory
The “Royal” Game of Ur – Il gioco “reale” di Ur
Ur Game The Ur Game, also known as “The Game of Twenty Squares”, was found by Leonard Woolley during the excavations of the Royal Cemetery of Ur in the first decades of the XX century. The renowned model of this gameboard, today preserved in the British Museum in London, is only one of sev[...]
luglio 18th, 2015 - 20:04 § in Iraq
RAMADAN
Il Ramadan è il mese nel quale si pratica il digiuno e la preghiera (in arabo: رمضان, ramaḍān) ed è, secondo il calendario musulmano, il nono mese dell’anno e ha una durata di 29 o 30 giorni. Esso celebra “Il mese in cui fu rivelato il Corano come guida per g[...]
luglio 13th, 2015 - 14:30 § in Iraq
MASTER PLAN OF BASRA
Our mission has been working for five years in this beautiful region and having visited many amazing places we would like to present them. We will begin with a detailed master plan of Basra, hoping to be helpful for a future trip. In this first article we will give some simple p[...]
luglio 11th, 2015 - 16:11 § in Iraq
A GREAT ARTIST IN THE WORLD OF IRAQ
ZAINAB SAMI ABDUL MUTTALIB Zainab Sami Abdul Muttalib was born in Babylon in 1983. She graduated (B.A.) in 2005 from the College of Fine Arts at the University of Babylon in plastic arts (ceramics); specializing (M.A.) at the same Univesity in 2008. This young artist has continued h[...]
luglio 6th, 2015 - 15:00 § in Archaeostory
NINURTA
WHO IS NINURTA Ninurta is the god of thunderstorm and floods in the spring. He is the son of God Enlil, he is presented in the text as “storm of Enlil”. Ninurta is especially the god of farmers (being linked to spring time), those in the north, in Nippur, and in the east, in[...]
luglio 4th, 2015 - 14:30 § in Archaeostory
THE SUMERIAN KING LIST
The numerous archaeological excavations in the land of “Sumer” have returned a very important document, the Sumerian King List, came to us in sixteen versions. All the tablets are written in Sumerian language, although some have an Akkadian influence, maybe caused by to subsequent[...]