For thousands of years Mesopotamia was home to hunters, fishers, and farmers, exploiting fertile soil, rivers, and abundant animals. By around 3200 B.C., the largest settlement in southern Mesopotamia, if not the world, was Uruk: a true city dominated by monumental mud-brick buildings decorated with mosaics of painted clay cones
Temple dedication foundation cones were placed in the temple walls of ancient Sumer (modern-day Iraq) for decoration. They record information about the ruler of that day and information about the god the temple was dedicated to. The exposed disk shaped ends of these cones were usually dipped in bright colours
The empires of Mesopotamia used Bronze to develop one of the most advanced societies of the ancient world. Access to the revolutionary material allowed them to create a breath-taking range of Bronze artefacts, examples of which you can purchase from Artemission. Bronze Age Human society began the Stone Age, which