The Akkadian Empire existed for a short time between 2334-2218 BCE, and was founded by Sargon the Great (or Sargon of Akkad), probably its most famous ruler.

Sargon originally came from the city of Akkad, whose location remains unknown but is thought the be near modern Baghdad. The Akkadian empire lasted for 150 years, ending with a rebellion.

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 ...

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 ...

The six cuneiform clay tablets, dating back to the Third Ur, Old Akkadian, and Old Babylonian periods (24th to 18th centuries BCE), contain economic, administrative, and religious content.