The Mesopotamians!
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=19482974
I'm not quite sure what I think of this. On the one hand, it's great that TMBG wrote a song about Sargon, Hammurabi, Assurbanipal and Gilgamesh, but on the other, the visuals of the video are terrible- there are certainly enough representations of Mesopotamian kings out ( Read more... )
I'm not quite sure what I think of this. On the one hand, it's great that TMBG wrote a song about Sargon, Hammurabi, Assurbanipal and Gilgamesh, but on the other, the visuals of the video are terrible- there are certainly enough representations of Mesopotamian kings out ( Read more... )
Sargon-
http://www.arthistory.upenn.edu/smr04/101910/Slide2.16.jpg
his grandson Naram-sin-
http://www.arthistory.upenn.edu/smr04/101910/Slide2.16.jpg
Hammurabi-
http://teachers.sduhsd.k12.ca.us/ltrupe/ART%20History%20Web/final/chap2NearEast/Stele%20of%20Hamurabi-Detail.jpg
Assurbanipal-
http://www.meridianmagazine.com/ancients/assurbanipalsm.jpg
Gilgamesh is harder, because he is not a historical king, though he probably did exist, and if he did he would most probably have been looked (or been represented) soemthing like this-
http://wings.buffalo.edu/english/faculty/christian/syllabi/375/hhjw1/127032.jpg
I am a geek, I know (but I still don't know how to embed the damn images!)
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http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/Images/ARTH200/politics/naram_sin_det.jpg
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