Drinking alcohol in Mesopotamia
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...
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New discoveries in southern Iraq: excavations at Kobeba
VERSION FRANÇAISE À LA FIN DE CET ARTICLE Kobeba is hardly a well-known name in the archaeological literature but it is a site which has already produced important discoveries, featured twice...
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IMAGE AND IDENTITY IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST: PAPERS IN MEMEORIAM PIERRE AMIET Ce livre, édité par Laura Battini, est le résultat d’un colloque tenu en 2016 à Lyon en l’honneur...
Preserving the Cultural Heritage of Iraq: the Contribution of the Italian Archaeological Missions
Version française : voir infra. In September the exhibition “Preserving the cultural heritage of Iraq: the contribution of the Italian archaeological missions” opened in Baghdad, at the Italian-Iraqi Institute of...
Animal/Human Studies: a State of Art
Animal studies is a recent field born from the deconstructivism of our society, that is to say from post-modernism, post-humanism, Derrida’s “remise en question” of thinking. It is largely influenced by...
