“Now any king who wants to call himself my equal, wherever I went, let him go!” – Sargon the Great



In 2,334 BC, Sargon of Akkad forged the world’s first empire and created a legend that would inspire Near Eastern rulers for millennia. The Third Dynasty of Ur built its smaller but more centralized structure on Akkadian foundations.

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