“the Code” was a tremendous achievement for not only Babylonian society but for the entire Mesopotamian region as King Hammurabi was ruler over all of that area. Its conception can be considered to be the first culmination of the laws of different regions into a single, logical text. ...
How did the Sumerians deal with cultural defusing? How did Sumerians use the wheel? How was Sumerian culture spread throughout Mesopotamia? How did ancient Egyptians adapt to their environment? What were the environmental challenges to Sumerians? How did Mesopotamian irrigation systems allow civiliza...
But what did the city of Shiloh have to do with all this? There was no obvious connection between this old site of a temple[lxxvii]and the future restoration of kingship. Fortunately, the vagaries of the Hebrew writing system, and the rules of Hebrew grammar, allowed for other interpretatio...
But it would be good to remind those Britons who lecture foreign nations about human rights that we were still trading slaves at the dawn of the 19th century, that we used opium to bust open China from the 1830s and that we did a lot to cause the miseries of the Great War and its ...
‘death’ of Mesopotamian statues. It is, therefore, a work in progress, destined to evolve and, above all, to be compared with other practices, reuse being only one of them.7To quote Nancy Highcock on votive objects that have been recast, moved, buried, and recovered: “The lives of ...