Word: sumerian
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...argue? Located in the Yellow Sea port from which it takes its name, the museum at China's best-known brewery contains two-dozen exhibits that bear titles like "Mystic Yeast." The Bavarian Purity Law of 1516 gets a display, as does a 4,000-year-old Sumerian hymn to Ninkasi, the goddess of brewing. Better still, the guide promises that at the tour's final stop, "visitors can sample all kinds of fresh Tsingtao beer." But first you have to learn how. A display explains the proper procedure for tasting beer: look, swirl, sniff and sip. Then there...
...when that paper in your advanced Sumerian seminar is getting the best of you, just know that Mama Harvard is here to help...
...study card flash mob” will create chaos as 700 students descend on Sumerian 200r, prompting widespread criticism of the administration for never considering any sort of “pre-registration” system...
...some priceless pieces are already known to be missing. Among them: a 3-ft. carved alabaster vase, circa 3200 B.C.; a black, headless statue of the Sumerian King Entemena, circa 2430 B.C.; a Sumerian sacred cup, circa 2600 B.C.; a copper head of an Akkadian ruler, circa 2350 B.C.; and a gold lyre from Ur, circa 2500 B.C. What else might be gone is anybody's guess...
...Antiquities: "It may be weeks, months, before we know what's there and what isn't." Archaeologists are praying for the safety of what may be the world's oldest calendar, a 10,000-year-old pebble with 12 notches; of the Warka head, circa 3200 B.C., depicting a Sumerian woman in white marble; and of a group of 800 neo-Babylonian cuneiform clay tablets that form the world's oldest intact library, circa...