Recientemente, entre los archivos de la Universidad de Yale, se «exhumaron» tres tablillas cuneiformes del 1600 antes de Cristo, hasta el momento no traducidas.. y que resultaron ser cuarenta recetas de cocina. Este descubrimiento da pie a...
Honestidad, claridad y mirada alta son tres rasgos escogidos que bien pueden caracterizar este escrito, obra de uno de los mayores especialistas en la civilización mesopotámica. De la primera a la última página late el decidido...
Here is a complete translation of all the published cuneiform tablets of the various Babylonian creation stories, of both the Semitic Babylonian and the Sumerian material. Each creation account is preceded by a brief introduction dealin...
Our ancestors, the Mesopotamians, invented writing and with it a new way of looking at the world. In this collection of essays, the French scholar Jean Bottero attempts to go back to the moment which marks the very beginning of history.
The civilization of Ancient Mesopotamia flourished between 3300 BC and 2000 BC in the southern half of the lands between and to either side of the Tigris and Eurphrates. The early development of cuneiform writing, the world's first phonetic script,...