After you’ve gone through Prehistory it’s time to jump into the Ancient Near East! Yay! The first period of “history” – my students always get a kick out of that idea. The following blog posts are most geared towards AP Art History but can easily be adapted for a Humanities or Ancient World History course.
- #12. White Temple and its ziggurat
- #14. Statue of votive figures, from the square Temple at Eshununna (modern Tell Asmar, Iraq)
- #16. Standard of Ur from the Royal Tombs at Ur (modern Tell el-Muqayyar)
- #19. The Code of Hammurabi
- Lesson Plan: Tower of Babel
- #25. Lamassu from the citadel of Sargon II
- Student Series! Sacred Prostitution
- Student Series! Captain America vs Gilgamesh
- Lesson Plan: Ziggurats vs. Pyramids
- Student Series! Code of Hammurabi vs The Ten Commandments
- Student Series! Ishtar vs Wonder Woman: A Collision of Culture
- Student Series! The Hanging Gardens
- Lesson Plan: The Epic of Gilgamesh
- AP Art History Hunting in Germany
- Writing & Art
- Lesson Plan: Political Narrative in the Ancient World
- JSTOR: How People Paid Their Taxes in Biblical Times
- Student Series! Moses: The Chosen One
- Lesson Plan: Archaeology in the Ancient Near East
JMF
