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, which was built by Sargon in the late eighth century BC. . Not long after that, the Englishman Layard resumed a group of works that Botha had left behind, revealing the ruins of ancient Nineveh, which contained the important library of King Ashurbanipal, Assurbanipal (seventh century).This book sheds light on civilization. Mesopotamia) The book includes two parts, the first part deals with the Babylonian civilization, and the second part studies the Assyrian civilization.