Sub Plans 9/30/2016    What the Ancients Knew:  Mesopotamians  watch parts 1 and 2.

http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/9-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-ancient-sumerians

What the Ancients Knew episode 6/6

Annunaki and Sumerian Creation video

Stele of Naram Sin:  analysis

In the class time remaining, take notes on chapter sections:  Mesopotamia

Cultures:  Akkadian, Sumerian,  Babylonian

Mesopotamia Timeline

Sumerians:  Inventors of everything.

The Epic of Gilgamesh  links:

Gilgamesh and Enkidu slay the Bull of Heaven:  Clay tablet and cylinder seal. c 2600 BCE.

Identification of Gilgamesh in Art - Metropolitan Museum of Art   

Historia Sumeria - multiple images of Sumerian artifacts, and  the Schoyen Collection - Assyrian, circa 2700 BC

Babylonian, 1800-1750 BC. From southern Iraq. British Museum, London.

Ishtar links:    Ishtar/ Ancient Peoples page

Hammurabi Stele (copy)  in front of the Ishtar Gate:

Reliefs of the bulls on the Ishtar Gate:  Museum Pergamum in Berlin

The dragons of the Ishtar Gate:  Detroit Institute of Art

The lions of the Ishtar Gate: 

Lion, bull and hairy man/ naked man images - often unidentified - circa 2K BCE

Beltane

Point of Inquiry:  Start with a good question:

IE   How do scholors know what ancient Mesopotamian music sounded like?

check out the link:  music 

The Sumerian Exhibit:  Photogallery

The Royal Standard of Ur

The King's List

Architecture of Mesopotamia

Tower of Babel

Tablet found - Gilgamesh?

Rig Veda creation myth

Enumu Elish - Mesopotamian creation myth  video

video - Sumeria/Mesopotamia and early archeology

Sumerian daily life video

Wooley and Royal Cemetary at Ur article

Brain Science:  Gender and the Brain