- British Museum: Mesopotamia
 - Exhibit exploring Mesopotamia, including the geography, mythology, and history of the Assyrian, Babylonian, and Sumerian civilizations. - Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Mesopotamia
- Contains information on Sumeria, Akkadia, Babylonia, and other civilizations that flourished in the geographic region of Mesopotamia.
- Code of Hammurabi (5)
- King Hammurabi (c.1792-1750 BCE) (3)
- Mr. Dowling's Electronic Passport: Mesopotamia
- Sections on the Fertile Crescent area include the Sumerians, the Assyrians, the calendar, writing, and Hammurabi.
- Epic of Gilgamesh (10)
- Gateways To Babylon
- Tribute to Mesopotamia, with features and links on myths, religion, and gods and goddesses.
- History Link 101: Ancient Mesopotamia
- Directory of sites about Mesopotamia in the areas of art, biography, daily life, maps, pictures, and research.
- History of the Ancient Near East
- Offers details about sites in ancient Israel, Iraq, Turkey, and elsewhere.
- Woolley and the Great Flood
- Examines the Mesopotamian flood tradition.
- Contracts from Mesopotamia, c. 2300 - 428 BCE
- Ancient History Sourcebook.
- Babylonian and Egyptian Mathematics
- From MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- History of Plumbing: Babylonia
- From theplumber.com.
- Hanging Gardens of Babylon@
- Read about the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the terraced gardens that are often named as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Browse descriptions of the Gardens from ancient travellers and modern archaeologists, and see artists' renderings of how they might have appeared.
- Greek Reports of Babylonia, Chaldea, and Assyria
- From the Ancient History Sourcebook.
- Catholic Encyclopedia: Babylonia
- Covering aspects of geography, early history, the first and Chaldean empires.
- Old Persian Texts
- Nebuchadnezzar (1)
- Babylonia and Near Eastern Resources
- From Restoring Christian Keys.
- Counting in Babylon
- Weights, measures, numbering systems, fractions, and more.
- Virtual Museum Mesopotamian Art
- Collections for the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute. Requires Quicktime VR.
- Medicine in Ancient Mesopotamia
- Includes descriptions of cuneiform medical texts, Mesopotamian concepts of disease and healing, and types of healers.
- A Great Assemblage: The Babylonian Collection
- Images and descriptions from artifacts held at Sterling Memorial Library.
- Catholic Encyclopedia: Captivities of the Israelites
- Covers in brief the Assyrian, Babylonian, and Roman captivities.
- Cyrus the Great
- First Achaemenian Emperor of Persia, who is belived to be the first head of state to issue a decree on the rights of nations.
- Diyala Miscellaneous Objects Publication Project
- Presentation of base data from the Oriental Institute's excavations (1930-38) in the Diyala River basin of Mesopotamia, northeast of Baghdad.
- Ancient Mesopotamia
- Designed by teachers to be used by fourth grade students when studying the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia.
- Stolen Stones: The Modern Sack of Nineveh
- Archaeology magazine article concerning the modern sack of Nineveh, home of the Sennacherib Palace, located in northern Iraq.
- Ancient Mesopotamia: This History, Our History
- Interactive exhibit on ancient Mesopotamia, considered to be the cradle of civilization. From the Mesopotamian collection of the Oriental Institute Museum of the University of Chicago.
- Livius: Mesopotamia
- Features articles on the history of ancient Mesopotamia as well as descriptions, pictures, and translations of cuneiform tablets from the region.
- Wikipedia: Mesopotamia
- Historical overview of Mesopotamia, covering language, writing, science, religion, culture, economy, government, and other aspects of ancient civilizations in this region.
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