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Beer in Bronze Age Mesopotamia

Prof. Tate Paulette discusses ancient Mesopotamia, and Sumerian beer-making, bappir, and his own brewing experiments. From daily life to the Epic of Gilgamesh, discover how beer shaped culture in the cradle of civilisation.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Cuneiform Discoveries from Ancient Babylon

In ancient Iraq, scribes used cuneiform (wedge-shaped) script to write hundreds of thousands of texts in the Sumerian and Akkadian languages on clay tablets.

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