| EDESSA | Center of early Christianity in Mesopotamia |
| JAMESTHELESS | A figure of early Christianity, sometimes identified as the son of Alphaeus |
| IONA | Center of early Celtic Christianity |
| UTERUS | Center of early development |
| RENAN | Early Christianity French historian |
| UTERI | Centers of early development |
| ASSYRIA | Emerging as an independent state in the 14th century BCE, it became a major power in Mesopotamia, Armenia, and sometimes in northern Syria, before declining after the death of Tukulti-Ninurta I about |
| ASSYRIANS | People of an ancient kingdom in Mesopotamia (9) |
| SUMER | An area in Mesopotamia with a civilisation that flourished in the 3rd millennium BC (5) |
| WOOLLEY | Leonard ___, archaeologist born in 1880 noted for his excavations in Mesopotamia (7) |
| UR | A Sumerian city-state in Mesopotamia (2) |
| ATOP | Sitting on what's dug up in Mesopotamia (4) |
| ZIGGURAT | Temple-tower in Mesopotamia (8) |
| CHALDAEA | Ancient empire based around Babylon in Mesopotamia (8) |
| ASSYRIAN | Relating to an ancient civilisation in Mesopotamia (8) |
| TIGRIS | Feles magna agrestis virgata (sed si mavis, flumen in Mesopotamia) |
| SHEEP | Animal which was first domesticated in Mesopotamia around 10,000 years ago (5) |
| ARCHANGEL | Small coins found in centre of early Russian port |
| GESU | Central figure of Christianity, in Florence |
| DRUID | A follower of a Celtic religion, supplanted by Christianity, in Gaul and British Isles (5) |
