History

Sumerian Beer:

Did beer come before bread? To answer the question scholars helped concoct a Mesopotamian brew from a 3,800-year-old recipe etched in clay. By Solomon H. Katz and Fritz Maytag....

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The Code of Hammurabi (Full Text)

Hammurabi`s Code of Laws Translated by L. W. King...

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Medicine in Ancient Mesopotamia

Most of the information available to modern scholars comes from cuneiform tablets. There are no useful pictorial representations that have survived in ancient Mesopotamian art, nor has a significant amount of skeletal material yet been analyzed. Unfortunately, while an abundance of cuneiform tablets have survived from ancient Mesopotamia, relativel...

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Women`s Lives in Ancient Mesopotamia

Ancient Tablets, Ancient Graves: Accessing Women`s Lives in Mesopotamia. Women In World History Curriculum...

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Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Mesopotamia

Ancient Near East Sumeria (c. 3100-c. 2000 BC) Akkadia (c.2350-2200 BC) Babylonia (c.2000-1600 BC) Kassites and Hittites (c.1600-717 BC) Assyria (c.1350- 612 BC) Chaldea/Neo-Babylonia (612-539 BC) Syrian Cities: Ebla, Ugarit, Emar Phoenicia 950 BC Carthage: The Punic Empire ANE Arts and Architecture ANE Mathematics and Astronomy Gender and...

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Near East Map

Oriental Institute Map Series - Site Maps Combining the separate 300 dpi prints will produce a composite map of the ancient Near East approximately 14" to 19" square, depending upon the printing methods used. The Site Maps will be updated periodically, so check back for the latest versions. Each Site Map is presented as a 300 dpi grayscale image...

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Manumission and Bridewealth Document

Manumission and Bridewealth Document (14th cent. BC?)TRANSLATION by K. C. Hanson (Adapted from Finkelstein 1969:546). Language: Akkadian; Medium: Clay tablet; Size: 43 centimeters long 5 centimeters wide; Length: 25 lines of writing Genre: Manumission & Marriage Contract Approximate Date: 14th cent. BC? Place of Discovery: Ugarit acropolis, Ras...

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