The Story of Atlantis
The early Etruscans, the Phœnicians, including the Carthaginians and the Shumero-Akkads, were branches of this race, while the Basques of to-day have probably more of the Akkadian than of any other blood which flows in their veins.
Chronological Nations and Tribes
Heroes: Sargon of Akkad
Key Locations: Akkad (Exact location unknown, but believed to be near modern-day Baghdad, Iraq)
The origin of Nimrod
Genesis 10:10-12 states: "The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Uruk, Akkad, and Kalneh, in Shinar.
Nimrod as a Historical Figure: The third approach seeks to identify Nimrod with historical figures, including Sargon of Akkad, the first of Assyria, or even Egyptian pharaohs like Nemrutash or Aramaean rulers like Ben-Hadad.
References to Babylon, Uruk, and Akkad suggest ties to Babylonia.
The decipherment of a vast quantity of cuneiform texts has allowed modern Assyriologists to piece together a more accurate history of Sumer, Akkad, Babylonia, Assyria, and Chaldea.
Mount Zagros
Rulers such as Sargon of Akkad and later Assyrian and Babylonian kings campaigned in the Zagros to secure their borders and exert influence over the highland tribes.
Oannes from Mesopotamian
Iraq Museum, Baghdad: Located in the heart of Mesopotamia, the Iraq Museum houses numerous artifacts and texts from ancient Sumer, Akkad, Assyria, and Babylon, many of which relate to their mythology and historical traditions.
Exodus, Moses and Egyptian history
Sargon of Akkad: An earlier Mesopotamian legend tells of Sargon, a great Akkadian king, who was placed in a basket and set adrift in a river by his mother.
Beginning of the 5th Root Race
The number of His followers being small, they made a single caravan, and the Manu sent a mes-sage to the Kuler of the Sumiro-Akkad Empire, praying for peaceful passage through his dominions — including the present Turkey in Asia, Persia and the countries beyond; He reached the borders of that Empire without difficulty, and the Emperor proved friendly; his passport carried Him right into Turkestan, and then He had to treat with a Confederation of Turanian feudatory States, including what is now Tibet.
Turanian, in Ancient Chaldaea.
The Akkads, who later formed the Babylonian Empire, tried to revive Chaldaean traditions, but their efforts produced only a pale imitation.
These spoilers were in their turn driven out by the Akkads from the northern hill-country — AtlanteanB still, but of the sixth sub-race ; and these, coalescing gradually with the remnants of the old race and with other tribes of Turanian type, made up the Sumiro Akkad nation out of which the later Babylonian Empire developed.
The Jinn
Pazuzu, the ancient Mesopotamian wind demon, is an example of a desert spirit, a primordial jinn, who struck terror in the hearts of city dwellers of Eridu, Ur, Nippur, Uruk, Akkad and other Sumerian cities some 4,000–6,000 years ago.