Was there a Kurdish identity or presence in Mesopotamia before the Islamic conquest? I am talking about non-Persian and non-Assyrian tribes or peoples inhabiting the Zagros in the region.

I know that the Khuzestan and Ilam provinces of Iran have bifurcations of the Tigris flowing through them. Susa is part of it.

Did the Mesopotamians consider Susa their own? If so, what are some papers or books about this subject?

I've been posting a lot about Mesopotamian Jewish history and I'm looking to dive deeper. I've tried contacting Iraq's Ministry of Culture with no luck. Do any of you know other archives or resources that might help? like Archives or a Journal specifically tailored to this?

hi! i am an artist and a storyteller. i am working on a story set in a fantasy setting inspired by mesopotamia. i struggle to find any sources that depict visually how the insides of many buildings looked like. like houses from the poor and rich, temples, palace, shops, community houses, bath houses and everything else. while there is reconstructions of how towns and cities looked like, i struggle with the rooms and how buildings look from inside out. i am happy to elaborate on how the main city (where the story takes place in) looks like in my notes and how the districts look like. i am open for any sources as long as its visual, since i have difficulties imagining architecture from words. even crude sketches are enough to get ideas rolling. thank you for anyone who will reply and happy new year :)

Hey I'm writing a time travle joke song with my friend and need two Mesopotamian 3 syllable place names, the problem is that I don't know how any of this stuff is pronounced and want to do a good job for when I sing it

ideally around 1800 bce for the ea nasir joke and two places people would travle from,

The closest I can find is 19th century reprints, but I want something that's more up to date.

Hello,

Some years ago I started playing DnD with my friends, I didn't tell them, but it was mostly an exercise in helping me to study and understand the Late Bronze Age that I'd already been idly researching for about 3 years.

I've started detailing my Homebrew world, beginning with Khuburru a city-state inspired by Ugarit. As a city on the crossroads of nearly every trade road and shipping lane, Khuburru is something like the "New York" of my world, a place where people from all over the world mingle.

Here's part 1 if you're interested:

https://open.substack.com/pub/thedmtiberius/p/khuburru-part-1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4va18d

For real, at this point I think we can have a common agreement that r-Sumer is only about textbook reconstructionism as well as it doesn't really care about Iraqis, Assyrians, and Middle Easterns as a whole.

So my suggestion would be if someone here made a well worked subreddit together with s Discord server for be an alternative to r-Sumer, focused on practicioners that aren't textbook reconstructionists and practicioners from the Middle East who disagree with the banalization made by Western pagans and Hellenistic Apologists regarding their religions.

Anyway, I was thinking about the subreddit and Discord server being focused on revivalism, but allowing Sumerian/Mesopotamian henotheism/monotheism like Mardukism and Ishtarism/Inannaism; Sumerian/Mesopotamian polypanentheism like Abzuism/Nammuism; and Hinduistic takes on Sumerian/Mesopotamian paganism.

Can someone please help me find this sign ? It’s from the 11th ligne of the 5th article of the Hammurabi code. I’m having a hard time identifying it..

Hello everyone! I am an Iraqi Arab trying to revive the Akkadian language, my idea is to document and learn the language using transliteration, finding cognates similar to Arabic words and inventing non-existent words similar to how it was done with modern Hebrew, and using the Neo-Aramaic alphabet as a substitute for cuneiform (nobody is going to learn that easily). Since everyone living here is a native Semitic speaker, I think it is going to be quite easier than some expect. I need help finding dictionaries, records and any info about this language, any help is appreciated, thanks in advance!

Anyone else find it interesting that this happened on a lunar eclipse? Seems to me the Scythians were guided by the stars, or astrologists of their time. Scythians had warrior queens…as we enter the age of Aquarius today it is important to note the time of the female warrior has returned. Now, all you men can advise me in the comments 🤣

Hey there. I'm working on a kind of costplay (in a scientific manner). I try to recreate the clothes of a mesopotamian king (namely Gilgamesh). First I had problems finding anything about the matter but a doctor from the LMU Munich helped me out. I found out which kind of clothes they wore and decided for a yellow closed "wrap-around garment". But the headgear is the real problem now. I won't use the crown with the horns I often saw but a kind of crown that is somewhat similar to a fez. But now I need to recreate it and I seem unable to find out what this kind of crown was made of. I read something in one of my sources about a word used for braiding baskets but also used for hair and crowns. But a pure braided crown seems to be a bit too simple for royal headgear. Has anyone an idea?

Here examples for the hats with horns and the ones I mean