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...recipes reveal "a cuisine of striking richness, refinement, sophistication and artistry," said Jean Bottero, a French assyriologist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mesopotamian Menus Make Elis Salivate | 4/1/1988 | See Source »

...years later, the Revolution dwarfed such domestic miseries, Akhmatova's marriage dissolved (Gumilyov was later shot by the Bolsheviks), and she withdrew into a brief marriage to an Assyriologist. Unlike many well-known artists, Akhmatova chose to remain in Russia. I am not one of those who left the land/ to the mercy of its enemies begins an uncompromising poem that goes on to be unnecessarily contemptuous of those who fled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cries and Whispers | 7/23/1973 | See Source »

Last week the University of Pennsylvania announced that after many years of effort, one of its scholars had succeeded in translating part of the oldest-known pharmacopoeia, dating from about 2100 B.C. The university's Assyriologist Samuel Noah Kramer needed the help of Pennsylvania State College's Dr. Martin Levey, a specialist in the history of science, to figure out the materia medica which the ancient physician was prescribing. Most were dissolved in wine or beer, e.g.: "Grind to a powder pear-tree wood and the moon plant, then pour kushumma wine over it and let [plain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Kushumma & Kushippu | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

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