A new, ambitious project led by Enrique Jiménez started in April 2018 at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München: the goal of the Electronic Babylonian Literature (eBL) Project is to significantly contribute to the reconstruction of Babylonian literature of the first millennium BCE. Babylonian Read more…
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. Read more…
The British Museum is seeking a Project Curator: Ashurbanipal to join the Middle East department in order to conduct research towards the goals of the Ashurbanipal Library Project. The emphasis is on the identification, transliteration and joining of tablet fragments 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 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 Read more…
The Oriental Institute and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations of the University of Chicago invite applications for an open-rank tenure-track or tenured, faculty position in Mesopotamian archaeology. The earliest date the appointment is anticipated to begin is 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 Read more…
The The Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles, announces a search for a tenure-track position in Assyriology and Cuneiform Studies with interests that engage broader cultural and intellectual traditions, are transdisciplinary in 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 Read more…
The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago invites applications for the Oriental Institute’s Annual Post-Doctoral Fellow Conference program for the 2020—2022 academic years. This is a twenty-four-month, non-renewable appointment. During the first year of the appointment, the Post-Doctoral Fellow Read more…