ancient mesopotamia

Hittite King Mursili I invaded Yamhad in Northern Syria to avenge his grandfather Hattusili I's defeat and defeat it's hands. He captured it's capital Aleppo ending it. Next he invaded Mesopotamia and marched on Babylon sacking it which ended the Old Babylonian Empire of Hammurabi's dynasty. But...

Being the religion of one of the earliest civilizations in the world the ancient Mesopotamia faith lasted in some form for thousands of years before finally fading into irrelevance around the 4th century BCE. Your challenge is to have Mesopotamia polytheism survive and thrive past this point and...

Hello. I'm an Ancient History student and this is my first thread. I still don't understand very well how alternatehistory.com works, but I'll try my best to make my story look decent. I would also like to apologize for my terrible English, so if at some point you don't understand something...

Plausibility check : How early can Elamites Conquer and assimilate Iranian plateau ?

What if the Gutian Dynasty of Sumer had never existed?

The Gutians were a people near ancient Mesopotamia whose language remains unclassified, who ruled Mesoptamia for about a century before the rebellion of Utu-Higal and the eventual prominence of the city of Ur, taking advantage of the kiloyear event to invade Akkad and install their own dynasty...

Your challenge is to have Ancient Mesopotamian culture survive to the present day in some form. It can be significantly different, as long as there's clearly some influence from Sumer, Akkad, Assyria, Babylonia, etc.