Frustratingly sad... New Babylonian Town Found: "He added that his team has come across several cuneiform tablets but ‘there is no one to read the ancient writing because Iraqi experts with the knowledge to decipher Mesopotamian script have fled the country.’ " I feel like we're living out an Arthur C Clarke story.
I've been looking for a real world copy of this for a while... and it's been a free ebook all along: Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Donald A. MacKenzie - Project Gutenberg I'm so jealous of the tools and resources that young people have at their disposal today. Makes me weak-kneed to think of the incredible amount of information my 5 month old daughter will be able to access ...
Salon.com does a fantastic job of presenting the situation at the Baghdad Museum after the US invasion of Iraq five years ago and where things stand now. There's a text transcript as well as a mp3 podcast available of a very valuable roundtable discussion... The looting of Iraq | Salon News: "Among the many unintended and unforeseen consequences of the U.S. occupation of Iraq that began five years ...
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Jastrow, Morris - Get more free documents
I came across a great new email discussion list that I promptly joined this morning called The Biblicalist. If you're a student of the Hebrew or Christian Bible, it looks like a fantastic resource. This isn't for everyone, but could grow to become something very valuable... biblicalist : The Biblicalist: "Welcome to The Biblicalist, a biblical studies list of academic emphasis open to all who wish to approach the ...
In order to make sure that future generations appreciate and understand our historical legacy, we have to ensure that we are teaching ancient languages in the most appropriate manner possible. Here's a thought provoking piece from the SBL site... Society of Biblical Literature: "Even if not as 'useful,' and proportionally much less popular than modern languages, in absolute numbers there is still a considerable interest in learning ancient languages. The ...
User Gauis Caecilius is posting pics of Jerash (Gerash) in Syria on his Flickr page. Beautiful stuff if you're interested in the Roman Empire and it's reach into Palestine and Syria.
I'm imagining a future 3,000 years from now when scholars and archaeologists attempt to put together the scattered fragments of our digital cuneiforms like we attempt to do today with the scant remains of Mesopotamian cultures from the past that were just as vibrant as ours. I wonder how far Google will get before the barbarians invade and the library is burned? As early as the third millennium B.C., ...
The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary is coming to completion (if that's possible for a dictionary of this scope!) after 80 years of hard work: Martha Roth, Ph.D., Professor of Assyriology, discusses the final volume of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, a comprehensive lexicon of ancient Akkadian dialects 86 years in the making. Roth has served as Editor-in-Charge of the project for the past 11 years. The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary: The Final Chapter
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