Word: mesopotamia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...uncovered the lamassu, colossal, winged bull-men that guarded the palace entrances. One hundred years later, the site was extensively re-excavated by Max Mallowan, whose mystery-writing wife Agatha Christie kept an office at the Nimrud Digs House and composed portions of an Hercule Poirot novel, Murder in Mesopotamia, at the site...
Twentieth century bureaucracy stumbles when it comes to the Amish, who have stubbornly resisted the Social Security program and other government rules and regulations. The latest conflict has cropped up in Mesopotamia (pop. 2,000), Ohio, 40 miles east of Cleveland, where Amish Volunteer Fire Fighters Eli Miller and Noah Mullet go unshaven as a sign of personal simplicity. A new state law forbids fire fighters to wear beards in the line of duty. The reason: facial hair prevents a proper seal from forming between the skin and a breathing mask, which fire fighters are required to use near flames...
...tablets most likely date back to the Old Babylonian period of Mesopotamia, Bottero said. The area between the lower Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now Iraq is often referred to as the cradle of civilization...
Nuzi, a site in upper Mesopotamia, was once a provincial center of the mysterious Hurrian people whose writings continue to baffle archaeologists. The Semitic Museum's collection of Nuzi artifacts is the largest in the world, according to museum Director Frank M. Cross...
Until the discovery of Ban Chiang, Southeast Asia had been largely dismissed by scholars as a cultural dead end. Rice cultivation was thought to have been introduced to Southeast Asia by way of China or the Near East. Metalworking techniques were said to have come from Mesopotamia or China...