While human civilization developed in many places around the world, it first emerged thousands of years ago in the ancient Middle East. “We see the first cities, the first writing and first technologies originating in Mesopotamia,” saysKelly-Anne Diamond, a visiting assistant history professor at...
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The petition was signed by 49 Glaswegian accountants, and it argued that the accounting profession had long existed in Scotland as a distinct profession of great respectability and that the small number of practitioners had been rapidly increasing. The petition further highlighted the varied skills req...
The next piece of historical evidence of linen use comes from ancient dwellings that were built on Switzerland’s lakefronts around 10,000 years ago, and according to archaeologists, linen was first domesticated in ancient Mesopotamia. While the use of linen for garments in Mesopotamia was mainly...
long before the game backgammon (西洋双陆棋),which itself has a long history.The game of Nard,which existed in Iran in around 3000 BC,used two sets of fifteen counters,four dice and same board as the one used in backgammon today,although the initial starting positions and rules are ...
When I opened the email, I was excited as I had read about his work. At the time, I was trying to carve out an academic pathway so I jumped at the opportunity. We met at a Thai restaurant near the UNSW campus with a couple of Nura Gili staff members. The professor seemed taken a...
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Mechanical locks have been around since ancient Egypt, with the oldest known artifact found in the ruins of Nineveh, an ancient city in Assyria, Mesopotamia, which is just across the Tigris River from what is now Mosul, Iraq. It was a forerunner to our modern-day pin tumbler...more ...
Nathan: Yeah, I see. So just to recap, you’re saying that the Bronze Age kings of Mesopotamia were heavily incentivized to enact periodic debt forgivenesses, and it wasn’t because they were nice guys, and it certainly wasn’t because they’d been studying their Adam Smith. It was beca...
The first cities in Mesopotamia developed around 3500 BCE, with others soon developing in Egypt, the Indus Valley and China. These cities of tens of thousands were filled with specialized craftspeople in distinct neighborhoods. This time around, people in the city centers weren’t living cheek ...