However, once you get a handle on the general geography of the area and its history, the art reveals itself as uniquely beautiful, intimate and fascinating in its complexity. Moreover, this is a part of the world which today remains remote from the West culturally while political tensions have impeded mutual understanding. The history of the Ancient Near East is complex and the names of rulers and locations are often difficult to read, pronounce and spell. It was not Solomon who disbelieved, but the devils disbelieved, teaching people magic and that which was revealed to the two angels at Babylon, Harut and Marut. Also In the Qur'anīabylon is referred to in verse (2:102) of chapter (2) sūrat l-baqarah (The Cow): Ancient Near Eastern art remains popular today in 2007 a 2.25 inch high, early 3rd millennium limestone sculpture, the Guennol Lioness, was sold for 57.2 million dollars, the second most expensive piece of sculpture sold at that time. The excavations inspired The Nineveh Court at the 1851 World's Fair in London and a style of decorative art and architecture called Assyrian Revival. These sites were discovered and their excavations revealed to the world a style of art which had been lost. It is largely because of the West's interests in the Biblcial "Holy Land" that ancient Near Eastern materials have been be regarded as part of the Western canon of the history of art.Īn interest in finding the locations of cities mentioned in the Bible (such as Nineveh and Babylon) inspired the original English and French nineteenth century archaeological expeditions to the Near East. Why is this region named this way? What is it in the middle of or near to? It is the proximity of these countries to the West (to Europe) that led this area to be termed "the near east." Ancient Near Eastern Art has long been part of the history of Western art, but history didn't have to be written this way. We often refer to this region as the Near or Middle East. The history of Mesopotamia, however, is inextricably tied to the greater region, which is comprised of the modern nations of Egypt, Iran, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, the Gulf states and Turkey. Mesopotamia, the area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (in modern day Iraq), is often referred to as the cradle of civilization because it is the first place where complex urban centers grew.
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