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Credits & sources
Every photo on this site is free to use under the licence shown. Thank you to the museums and photographers who share their work.
Images
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Fonts and data
- Cuneiform signs: Noto Sans Cuneiform (SIL Open Font License 1.1). Sign code points from the Unicode Character Database (Unicode License).
- Text fonts: Cormorant Garamond and Nunito Sans (SIL Open Font License 1.1), via Google Fonts.
- The map is drawn for this site. River and border lines are approximate.
Main sources
- The Met: Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
- British Museum: the library of Ashurbanipal
- Oracc: Ashurbanipal Library Project
- Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (Oxford)
- UNESCO World Heritage Centre
- Louvre: the Code of Hammurabi and British Museum: the Cyrus Cylinder
- Chronology of the ancient Near East (overview of the dating debate)
Dates follow the Middle Chronology. Population and empire sizes are scholars' estimates and are shown as ranges.