Mesopotamia

The name Mesopotamia was invented by the Greeks and meant "between the rivers," which is where Sumeria and other kingdoms in the region were located, including Akkad and Babylonia. Sumerian art developed around conventionalized images of the human form. These could occur in painting, as in the panel known as Standard of Ur (c. 2700 B.C.), depicting a war scene, or in sculpture, as in the Statuettes f

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