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...loss that Winter mentions is the Sippar library, a collection of Babylonian clay tablets that comprises one of the oldest libraries in the world. Unearthed in the 1980s, the library was still awaiting close study...
...Divinity Ave. displays tablets and jewelry from the ancient city of Nuzi. Excavated in a series of Harvard-sponsored expeditions in the late 1920s, the artifacts (which include a set of civil lawsuits inscribed in cuneiform) record the culture of the Nuzi civilization, which fell to its Assyrian and Babylonian neighbors in the thirteenth century B.C.E...
...likes to say, and Saddam is Iraq. He has been a ruler, says Coughlin, who "has always had one eye on history." He has longed for his name to go down in Arab history alongside those of the culture's great heroes, like Nebuchadnezzar, who drove the Jews into Babylonian captivity, and Saladin, who retook Jerusalem from the Christian Crusaders. He wanted to fulfill the modern-day promise of Egypt's great nationalist Gamal Abdul Nasser, restoring Arab unity and the greater Arab nation to its rightful place in the world. In recent years the standard-bearer of secular Baathism...
...Okichi's grave, Gyokusenji or any other Shimoda site will not be alone. Groups of middle-aged tourists pack Shimoda, belying the town's, and Japan's, current economic slump. You won't see any orange-haired punk city kids, though; little Shimoda feels about as removed from the Babylonian crush of Tokyo as one can get. And yet, perhaps because of its special history, Shimoda is no Japanese hick town. There are English and Portuguese buttons on the atms. No one yelled "gaijin!" at me as I walked down the streets. There are funky bars like JaJah and Cheshire...
...performance into a translation section and an original works section, but rather switched back and forth. In so doing, Ferry allowed for a better appreciation of the differences and fundamental similarities between the various genres of poems he performed. The last two lines of verse Ferry read (from a Babylonian poem, “Prayer to the Gods of the Night”) were: “Establish the truth in the ritual omen, / In the offered lamb establish the truth.” And indeed, these words, in their haunting beauty and characteristic poignance, marked a fitting close...