The Evolution of the Saluki

British Academy 10 Carlton House Terrace, London, United Kingdom

In this lavishly illustrated talk, it will be shown that the archaeological record indicates the existence of a Saluki-like hunting hound in Mesopotamia from at least the 6th millennium BCE.

Discovering the Sumerians

Virtual

This talk reveals how the idea of a Sumerian people was assembled from archaeological and textual evidence uncovered in Iraq and Syria over the last 150 years.

Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid on High, Low, and Broken Hearts

Virtual

Thousands of medical texts from ancient Assyria and Babylonia have afforded modern scholars a glimpse of how illness and its symptoms were recorded and understood in the first millennium BCE. Thanks to the durable medium of clay, impressed with the iconic wedges of cuneiform script, these texts preserve some of the oldest known medical records […]

Middle Bronze Age Kassites; and a Late Bronze Age Kassite Town

Khalili Lecture Theatre SOAS Main Building, Torrington Square,, London, WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom

This lecture will cover the issue of the geographical origins of the Kassite people whose dynasty ruled Babylonia between ca. 1450 and 1154 B.C.E

Free

May Lecture

British Academy 10 Carlton House Terrace, London, United Kingdom

Professor Hugh Kennedy on ‘The Globalisation of Baghdad’

Free

Webinar

Virtual

Alison Shan Price MBE on 'The Accounts of Activists and Arabists Gertrude Bell, Violet Dickson and Freya Stark: Rewriting History'

Lecture

British Academy 10 Carlton House Terrace, London, United Kingdom

Professor Joseph Sassoon on 'The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty'

Free

Lecture

British Academy 10 Carlton House Terrace, London, United Kingdom

Dr Eva Miller on ‘Eden in America: Exhibiting, Performing, and Imagining Iraq between Two Nations’

Free