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