Ruins of the ancient city of Akkad

Mahmudiya, Iraq (IQ)

The Akkadian Empire was an empire centered in the city of Akkad and its surrounding region in Ancient Iraq (Mesopotamia). The city of Akkad was situated on the west bank of the Euphrates, between Sippar and Kish (in Iraq, about 50 km (31 mi) southwest of the center of Baghdad). Despite an extensive search, the precise site has never been found. It reached the height of its power between the 24th and 22nd centuries BC, following the conquests of king Sargon of Akkad.

Because of the policies of the Akkadian Empire toward linguistic assimilation, Akkad also gave its name to the predominant Semitic dialect: the Akkadian language, reflecting use of akkadû ("in the language of Akkad") in the Old Babylonian period to denote the Semitic version of a Sumerian text.

Ruins of the ancient city of Akkad

Mahmudiya, Iraq (IQ)

Ancient
Links: en.wikipedia.org
By: kjfitz

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Comments

Anonymous

@ 2020-09-16 16:04:13

I always assumed that the city was metaphor. In numerous places it says that “it was he Sargon who dug up the blocks of Babylon and had them carried to the doorstep of Akkad“. A thurough read through of the Cuneiform tablet sources indicates that the original city of Babylon was indeed destroyed. Perhaps this pile of rubble is the old city of Babylon.

I had always though though that if Akkad ere to be found it would have a somewhat phonetic carryover for a new name. Al-Qadisiyah, Kut, and some others were my likely bet. Keep in mind that before Sargon redirected the Rivers they ran together for over 300 miles, upstream of Baghdad. It was Sargon who split the river again and redirected the Euphrates West to its current approximate course. This was in part of an effort to create a lasting agricultural aqueduct system. For this reason I think the location you have picked is a little too convenient. I b
elieve Kut is a good place to start looking. Leaving Baghdad going East out of Nineveh, is nothing but fields of strange ruins, buried in sand.

Let’s go find out What’s under the sand!

Anonymous

@ 2020-09-16 16:23:07

Hey so one of my primary sources indicates that Aa was East of the most Northern course of the Tigris. This means it is likely in an isolated area of desert today because the river has shirfted course many times over the last 4500 years.

Check out this spot it is called Kut. To this day a tributary branches off here at the ancient city and connects South to the Euphrates. In ancient times the geologists tell us that the two rivers met at Lake Tharthar and flowed downstream as one river. It was near Akkad that the river split again naturally into to rivers.

Evidence of this is found all over the ancient documents and in the deserts North of Tharthar. Check out in Google Earth, it is easy to see where Tigris redirected West at 36°31'03"N 42°44'40"E. It was during the floods of the 4.2 Kiloyear event caused the rivers to surge around 2200BC. So Sargon and his people responded by building dams and putting boulders in the river to spelt diffuse the stream intensity and create a flood plain effect.

I stand by my first assertion that Kut is the most likely location for Akkad.