Past Events

Dr John Curtis on ‘William Kennett Loftus: a 19th Century Archaeologist in Mesopotamia’

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

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

Leon McCarron on ‘Wounded Tigris: A River Journey Through the Cradle of Civilisation’

Professor Hugh Kennedy on ‘The Globalisation of Baghdad’

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

Professor Wicke has directed fieldwork in Northern Mesopotamia with a special focus on the periods of the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages.

This lecture will examine two of Mesopotamia’s most important cities: Tell Brak and Tell al-Hiba (ancient Lagash).

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.…