Here is the last of a series listing the 20 most common historical myths. These are facts that everyone seems to know, which have only one problem: they’re not actually true. The following four historical “facts” were probably taught to you at school. As you can see, they weren’t as […]

The Akkadians were a group of Semitic people from the Arabian Peninsula at the time the great Sumerian city-states were flourishing. These people eventually migrated north, where they encountered the Sumerians. Around 2350 BC, an Akkadian military leader, Sargon (Sharukkin-“the rightful ruler”) conquered the Sumerian city-states and built an Akkadian […]