The Akkadian Empire is thought to be the oldest empire in recorded history, but there is still much we do not know about its people or the figures who established it. Image credit: Eric de ...

Evidence of the Akkadian Empire’s administration. Girsu held religious importance in Sumerian times as a sanctuary for the god Ningirsu. Around 2300 BC, ...

Our Fragile Moment Michael Mann PublicAffairs, $30. Over four millennia ago, in the final days of the Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia, a drought swept over the region, afflicting lands as far away ...

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 ...

Archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have uncovered over 200 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets at Girsu, shedding light on the earliest known empire's complex bureaucracy. View on euronews ...

A recent TikTok trend shows that men think about the Roman Empire more often than expected. Amy Briggs, editor-in-chief of National Geographic History Magazine, reveals why it still resonates.

He begins over 4,000 years ago with the rape and vengeance of Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon, the self-made ruler of the Akkadian empire in Mesopotamia. He ends with the Trumps and the Xis .

While the Akkadian empire collapsed in 2137 B.C., Enheduanna’s poems continued to be copied for centuries, as part of the standard training of scribes. By about 500 B.C., Enheduanna was ...

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The students I encounter as a history lecturer know next to nothing about empire, and the conquest, subjugation and exploitation of millions of people it entailed ...