Word: mesopotamia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some scoundrel been fomenting a holy war in Turkey? Can the dastardly plot to do in the Greek Premier be foiled? Is the hated Boche all cranked up to subvert Mesopotamia? Yes, yes, and yes. The thing to do, as many a British reader from 15 to So knows, is call in Richard Hannay. At least that is what old Sir Walter Bullivant at the Foreign Office always did. and with the most heartening results for both the interests of Old England and the greater glory of a sandpiper-sized Scottish scrivener named John Buchan. A soldier, a respected historian...
...Babylonians and their predecessors in Mesopotamia believed that the motions of the heavenly bodies had an intimate influence on human affairs. When they recorded current events-the start of a war, say, or a drop in the price of barley-they were likely to include the position of the moon on that day. or the location of a couple of planets. Today, if a scholar studying the clay tablets of ancient Babylon wants to know the exact date of a given event, all he has to do is to calculate the date when the heavenly bodies were in their recorded...
Constant Symbols. It was logical that The Arts of Mankind should begin with Sumer, for it was there, in lower Mesopotamia-the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers-that the world's first major civilization was born. The book might have degenerated into a dry catalogue of archaeological finds; but the author of the text, André Parrot, a chief curator of the Louvre, is happily free from fustiness. Text and illustrations have been carefully synchronized: what the eye reads, it can also see at the same instant...
...lovers, the cache of mother goddesses and the culture that fashioned them is even more significant for prehistorians. For the glories of Hacilar, predating a recent Mesopotamian find by at least 3,000 years, offer strong support for a long-argued theory: that civilization was not cradled in Mesopotamia and carried slowly north as has been generally supposed, but that the Neolithic farmers and artisans of Anatolia fathered a culture later transmitted to the south...
...great and inventive people who settled 5,500 years ago in Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates (now part of Iraq), founded one of the world's first major civilizations. But only in this century have scholars come to know the Sumerians with any thoroughness, chipping away at the sites of such ancient city-states as Ur, Lagash and Mari. Last week a U.S. expedition, sponsored by the American Schools of Oriental Research and the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, was at work at the site of the holy city of Nippur, the seat...