Mesopotamia, Babylonian and Assyrian civilizations

The sources from which we derive our information about the Babylonian and Assyrian civilizations - which flourished in the plains of the Tigris and Euphrates, before the Christian era - are almost limited to the inscriptions and antiquities of these two civilizations. Botta, the French consul in Mosul, is credited with initiating organized excavations in order to uncover traces of the ancient Assyrian Empire. In 1842 AD, in the Khorsabad region, he uncovered the city of Dour-Sharrookin, whi...