Preserving the Natural Heritage of the Kings of Mesopotamia

Al-Taee, Diana Okab Hammo; Alrawi, Hala Abdulkareem

doi:10.33899/aa.2024.183413

	Preserving the Natural Heritage of the Kings of Mesopotamia
Athar al-rafedain
Article 8, Volume 9, Issue 2, June 2024, Pages 175-190 PDF (6.3 M)
Document Type: Research Paper
DOI: 10.33899/aa.2024.183413
Authors
Diana Okab Hammo Al-Taee^* ¹; Hala Abdulkareem Alrawi²
¹Master Student/Department of Civilization/College of Archeology/University of Mosul
²جامعة الموصل کلیة الاثار قسم الحضارة
Abstract
The cultural heritage occupied the thought of the kings of Mesopotamia, and based on the textual data and artistic productions, they made great efforts to preserve that heritage, because they saw in it the identity of a nation and a people with a very great civilization, as well as the pride that those kings had while they appeared to be conservatives on the legacy of their ancestors The cultural heritage, and the diversity of that heritage and included multiple aspects, and perhaps the most prominent of its types is the natural heritage, which also received the attention of those kings, and this is what we infer through the royal writings and artistic productions that documented that interest. Including the animal gardens, which represented a kind of bragging and pride in the psyche of those kings as well as their recreational aspect, and the botanical gardens to which various trees were added brought from neighboring countries and placed there. The king's policy, in addition to that, the kings deliberately documented that natural heritage in their various artistic productions, and this also embodies a kind of interest and preservation of that heritage as The passage of time, which we will also address in the topic of this research
Keywords
Preservation; Legacy; Kings; Nature; Mesopotamia

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