List of Mesopotamian dynasties


Early Dynastic period

DateLagashUmmaUrukUrKing of Kish
2500 BCUrnanshePabilgaltukhMeskalamdugMeskalamdug
AkurgalUshAkalamdug
2450 BCEanatumEnakaleMesannepada
Aannepada
Mesannepada
Eanatum
Enanatum IUrlumaMeskiagnuna
2400 BCEntemenaLugalkigineduduLugalkigineduduLugalkiginedudu
Enanatum IILugalkisalsiLugalkisalsi
EnentarsiGishakidu
U' u
EliliLugalsilasi
LugalandaUrzage
Lugal-TAR
Urzage
2350 BCUruKAginaLugalzagesiEnshakushanaEnbi' ishtar
LugalzagesiUrzababa
Sargon of Akkad

Late third to mid-second millennium BC

Mitanni

Mid-second to first millennium BC

Eclipse and Venus observation records

Base on an Assyria record of Eclipse on June 15, 763 BC, and the related date documents between Assyria and Babylonia, the dates after 1400 BC are reliable. According to the Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa, a record of astronomical observations of Venus in Old Babylonian Empire king Ammisaduqa, the rough date can be concluded. But about the accuracy date, the Historians have different opinions, in high chronology the finish date of Old Babylonian is 1651 BC, in middle chronology the finish date of Old Babylonian is 1595 BC,and in low chronology the finish date of Old Babylonian is 1531 BC. In this article we use the middle chronology, same as most of the books about Mesopotamia, but there are many evidence support the low chronology.