Founder of the world's first empire, Sargon of Akkad upheld order and justice. (Dea Picture Library/De Agostini/Getty) HIS NAME MEANT "true king," and Sargon of Akkad (unknown--2279 B.C.) took ...

Antifa agitators shut down an event at the King's College in London featuring Ayn Rand Institute President Yaron Brook and anti-political-correctness YouTube personality Carl Benjamin (a.k.a ...

Its great king, Sargon, ruled from 2334 to 2279 B.C. and welded together an empire out of city states that had existed since the discovery of agriculture in the fertile crescent around 7000 B.C.

In 'A New Historical Inscription of Sargon II from Karkemish,' published in the Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Gianni Marchesi translates a recently discovered inscription of the Assyrian King ...

Mesopotamian King Sargon II envisioned ancient city Karkemish as western Assyrian capital. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2019 / 04 / 190419103702.htm ...

The Morgan Library & Museum presents “She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia, ca. 3400-2000 B.C”, on view in New York through February 19, 2023.

Akkadian was the language of Hammurabi's law code, the language of the world's first empire-builder, Sargon the Great, and the language of the Assyrian kings who conquered Jerusalem in the Hebrew ...