Ancient Mesopotamia
Explore the fascinating ancient cultures of Mesopotamia -
Assyria, Babylon and Sumer.
Resources for visits
Classroom resources
Online resources
Useful books
Resources for visits
Mesopotamia (KS2 History)
Ancient Mesopotamia was responsible for some of the very
earliest cities, writing, maths, astronomy and amazing crafts.
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Classroom resources
The exhibition Babylon: Myth and Reality has
now closed but the teachers' pack and slideshows are still
available to download. A new Babylon resource pack is coming
soon.
Download resources:
Babylon teachers' pack (pdf 2.5mb)
Artists and Babylon (ppt
2.3mb)
Babylon as a heritage site (ppt
997kb)
Objects from ancient Babylon (ppt 910kb)
Presentations
Easy to use, self-contained slideshows for History or
cross-curricular use. Introducing ancient Mesopotamia
through a series of key objects.
Sumer
Download: slideshow (ppt 4296kb)
support
notes (pdf
40kb)
Assyria
Download: slideshow (ppt
3148kb)
support notes (pdf 37kb)
Babylon
Download: slideshow (ppt
1093kb)
support notes (pdf 37kb)
Online resources
Ancient
Mesopotamia
British Museum website for KS2.
Explore the ruins of a palace, the library of an astronomer and the
Royal Tombs of Ur, then build your own ziggurat and calculate the
movements of the planets.
Useful books
Katharine Wiltshire, Pocket
Timeline of Ancient Mesopotamia,
London, British Museum Press, 2005
Lorna Oakes, Step into: Mesopotamia, Lorenz
Books, 2001
Phillip Steele, Mesopotamia with CDRom, DK
Eyewitness Guides, 2007
Virginia Schomp, Ancient Mesopotamia: the Sumerians,
Babylonians and Assyrians, Franklin Watts, 2005
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