A trip to the Feminine Power exhibition at the British Museum.
In May I took the day off and journeyed up to the British Museum. I had planned on doing this anyhow, but the Feminine Power exhibition was on and so… Read more »
Category: Mesopotamia
Witches and Demons in Mesopotamia – shownotes.
Happy Halloween! I hope you enjoyed the episode, it was a chance to cover a slightly different area from Greece and Rome. I referred to a few scholars in the… Read more »
The camel in Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome.
It was Aristotle, in his work The History of Animals, who noted that there were two types of camels. The Bactrian, who had two humps, and the dromedary who was… Read more »
Babylonians and boots. A bad gift idea.
With the recent festivities in mind the angst over gift giving could be thought of as a modern concept. However, gifts were given in antiquity and if you’ve listened to… Read more »