These gardens also played a religious role, offering a glimpse of what eternity might look like in the afterlife.
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A collection of artefacts collected 2,500 years ago in modern-day Iraq reveal the forgotten world of Mesopotamia, home to many world firsts – including beer production.
How did civilization emerge from small groups of hunter-gatherers? Some archaeologists focus on cooperation as the vital ingredient – and find evidence for it in the form of feast-related artifacts.
The possible join between the fragments of an ancient epic written in cuneiform in London and Geneva has been speculated for over 50 years.
From environmentalism to the meaning of life, the themes of the world’s most ancient epic are still remarkably relevant to modern readers.
Films set in the ancient world can no longer adequately live up to the demands of the ‘epic’. Instead, we should look to films set in space.
How did jogging go from a Victorian gentleman’s pastime to the most popular form of exercise on the planet?
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Honorary Research Associate, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Sydney
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Professor of Cultural Computing, Director NVIDIA Joint-Lab on Mixed Reality, University of Nottingham
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Associate Professor in Ancient History, Macquarie University