About 4,500 years ago, an image of the Sumerian storm god Ningirsu was engraved on a silver vessel now on view in the Getty Villa Museum exhibition “Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins.” ...
Introduction : becoming art -- The search for Origins : Mesopotamia and the cradle of civilization -- Uruk : the arts of civilization -- Early Dynastic Sumer : images for people, temples for gods -- ...
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NEW YORK -- Visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's newest exhibit immediately see a large photo of a vase almost 5,000 years old -- and missing since the looting of cultural institutions that ...