Word: mesopotamians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Burns' course offerings reflect his interests in ancient and Renaissance architecture. He carries a typical teaching load at the school, supervising one full-year survey course and two half-year seminars on subjects such as Mesopotamian structures and ancient Greek and Roman buildings, as well as seminars on Renaissance and Baroque architechure, which is Burns' own specialty...
...will be on your desk this afternoon." Back in my office, though, it was hard to concentrate. The little cursor on the blank computer screen blinked incessantly, like an accusing Cyclops. I felt like Sisyphus, endlessly, futilely pushing a rock up a hill. Oh, that I were Nabu, the Mesopotamian god of writing and destiny, whose powers could alter the days allotted to men in this life...
...recipe collections--inscribed on three Mesopotamian clay slabs dating to 1700 B.C.--are probably the oldest cookbooks in existence, according to William W. Hallo, curator of the Yale Babylonian Collection...
...cuneiform figures scratched into the tablets provide instructions for dozens of Mesopotamian stews, vegetable dishes and meat pies...
...following are two Mesopotamian recipes, with explanatory comments in parentheses from Botteron...