The Assyrian staff members were able to take the Assyrian team to The University of Chicago to the Ancient Assyrian culture museum. On Nov. 2, we visited the Ancient Assyrian culture museum and got to look at monuments and learn more about the way Assyrians lived in Mesopotamia.

Mesopotamia was founded by two British and French adventurers Layard and Botta, and soon after King Sargon of Akkad took the throne. During that time, people didn’t have proper houses. Assyrian’s made hut houses, using mud, and creating mud bricks to create their houses.

Writing was a big part of Mesopotamia life. They created the life of writing in 3300 BC. They first used the Assyrian language to confirm records of goods, then later used to educate. They created clay tablets to contain legal agreement and listed witnesses. In addition, they used scribes to send mail off to families that were far from them.

Assyrian’s invented a ton of objects we use today, but one of the most used one is education. They invented math, and now math is a main part of life. In addition, they invented agriculture and wheels, which were used for transportation in the past, and now today.

Assyria soon was destroyed later in 612 BCE, later following Mesopotamia in 331 BC.