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One Lyre for humanity
When the Baghdad Museum was looted and vandalized in April 2003, most of us could only stand by and watch in horror as part of the...
Ryan Moorhen
Nov 11, 20114 min read
Let’s play Ur!
The Royal Game of Ur, housed and on display at the British Museum. (Source) Okay, so I have an iPod Touch, and I’ve filled it with game...
Ryan Moorhen
Nov 4, 20112 min read
Tablet #36 by Sumerian Shakespeare
If you like a good mystery and if you’ve been swept up into the hullabaloo of the authenticity of Shakespeare’s works as a result of the...
Ryan Moorhen
Nov 1, 20112 min read
A Mesopotamian Archaeology Wonder
We all know about hieroglyphics and Egyptology, but very few of us know about even the existence of Assyriology, or the fact that there...
Ryan Moorhen
Oct 24, 20111 min read
Pine Cones in Ancient Mesopotamia
With the holiday season coming up and those bags of cinnamon-scented pine cones hitting store shelves soon, I think it would make a great...
Ryan Moorhen
Oct 22, 20111 min read
Mesopotamian Cities
#mesopotamia #history #ur #ancient #iraq #maps
Ryan Moorhen
Oct 16, 20111 min read
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