As per the museum’s website, Sargon I, the first king of Akkad, was the one who united the whole of Mesopotamia. “Sargon developed this new form of governance by conquering all the Sumerian ...

They date back to when Girsu, one of the world's oldest cities, was under the control of the Akkad dynasty from 2300 ... at its peak and was conquered by King Sargon in around 2300BC.

Evidence from ancient Mesopotamia reveals that ... conquered around 2300BC by the Mesopotamian king Sargon. Sargon originally came from the city of Akkad, whose location remains unknown but ...