The motifs that appear on these works are often reminiscent of Babylonia and Art of Mesopotamia art.

Soon he also became deeply involved in the study of the art of Mesopotamia, Greece, Persia and the early Christian and Islamic worlds.

The art of Mesopotamia has survived in the archaeological record from early hunter-gatherer societies (10th millennium BC) on to the Bronze Age cultures of the Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian empires.

With recent news focused on the fate of precious objects from museums in Iraq, this show dwells on the art of Mesopotamia, the ancient region between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, much of it in what is now Iraq.

The art of Mesopotamia rivalled that of Ancient Egypt as the most grand, sophisticated and elaborate in western Eurasia from the 4th millennium BC until the Persian Achaemenid Empire conquered the region in the 6th century BC.