A new, ambitious research project has recently started at the New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. Named Shanati, it aims to reconstruct the ancient Babylonian Calendar and bring it into harmony with the Julian Calendar. We are grateful to David Danzig, creator and lead researcher Read more…
New year, new reading suggestions! Directly from Jack M. Sasson’s Agade mailing list, here is a list of recent publications in the fields of Assyriology and Mesopotamian Archaeology. Note that this list only includes titles that have been notified between October, 1st and December, 31th 2019. Earlier titles have already appeared Read more…
Mar Shiprim is glad to offer to its readers an insight into another exhibition on ancient Mesopotamia which can be visited in New York. Anastasia Amrhein and Elizabeth Knott have kindly agreed to describe to us the exhibition, which they curated (together with Clare Fitzgerald) at New York University’s Institute for Read more…
How can you make ancient Mesopotamia speak to modern generations? How difficult is it to present Assyriological-related issues to a large and non-specialist audience? These are but two of the questions that we asked to Eckart Frahm, Agnete Wisti Lassen and Klaus Wagensonner – the curators of a major exhibition Read more…
Mar Shiprim this time spotlights the new galleries of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, thanks to this article written by Grant Frame – to whom we are very grateful. Officially opened in April 2017, the three new galleries stem from a joint effort, which has Read more…
Jaafar Jotheri (Department of Archaeology, University of Al-Qadisiyah), reports on the latest news regarding the ancient Iraqi heritage. The years 2018-2019 have seen many and varied activities: we are grateful to Jaafar for this interesting overview on archaeological excavations and international conferences that took place in many Iraqi regions. * Read more…
Culled from the Agade mailing list for your convenience, and with Jack M. Sasson’s approval, here is a particularly rich list of recent publications in the fields of Assyriology and Mesopotamian Archaeology, which appeared during the summer months. This list only includes titles that have been notified between June, 1st and Read more…
At the beginning of this year, the “Young Italian Researchers of History and Philology of the Ancient Near East” gathered for the second time (Mar Shiprim already published a report of their first meeting), to present the progress of their research and discuss the projects in which they are involved. Read more…
It is our pleasure to thank and congratulate the organizers of this year’s Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale for a highly successful 65th installment of the annual meeting! In July, 8-12 2019, scholars of the Ancient Near East from all over the world convened in Paris for a week of workshops, Read more…
A very special event took place in Changchun on World Book Day, Reading and Copyright 2018: NENU’s Main library in Changchun hosted the reading of “Gilgamesh in 12 hours”. Michela Piccin, who organized the event, has sent a report to Mar Shiprim, providing a very interesting description of how it Read more…