The cats in Mesopotamia
The cat was familiar in Mesopotamia, and even important: it is the only domestic animal mentioned in the creation of the world as recounted by the I millennium tablet, which also...
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The cat was familiar in Mesopotamia, and even important: it is the only domestic animal mentioned in the creation of the world as recounted by the I millennium tablet, which also...
Yemen, once known to Roman writers as ‘Happy Arabia’, is in a terrible state and declared by the UN to be the world’s worst humanitarian crisis of the 21st century. It...
We are delighted to confirm the return of the final body of cuneiform tablets exported from Woolley’s excavations at Ur to London for study and publication (Figures 1-2). This follows the...
Version française en bas ‘To Aleppo gone …’ is a festschrift offered in honour of Jonathan Tubb, former Levant curator and Keeper of the Department of the Middle East at the...
Imbibing alcohol through a straw is a scene shown on Early Dynastic Mesopotamian and Dilmunite glyptic and long assumed to be a Sumerian invention (Figure 1)1. Figure 1. Reconstruction of a...