Ever since 2018, a new public outreach/digital humanities project is available online: “Digital Hammurabi”. The project has been entirely conceived and shaped – and is actively conducted – by husband and wife Assyriology team, Megan Lewis and Joshua Bowen, whose Read more
SEAL is an ongoing project which started in 2007. It aims to compile an exhaustive catalogue of Akkadian literary texts from the 3rd and 2nd millennia BCE, so as to enable an efficient study of the entire early Akkadian corpus in all its philological, Read more
Dear Mar Shiprim readers, we hope that you are all safe and well in these difficult and unprecedented times. As we all adapt to working from home, here is a list of the most recent publications in the fields of Read more
A new exhibition will open on Saturday, 7th March at Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle upon Tyne. This family-friendly event aims to bring to life fascinating stories of ancient Iraq through over 80 items on loan from the British Museum, Read more
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