Auf der diesjährigen Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften am 10. Mai 2014 präsentiert sich das BabMed-Projekt erstmals einem breiteren Publikum. Dafür vermitteln die BabMed-Wissenschaftler einen Einblick in die Welt der medizinischen Keilschrifttexte Mesopotamiens und präsentieren antike Vorstellungen über Anatomie, Krankheitsursachen und verschiedene Formen der Therapie. Ein besonderes Anliegen der Langen Nacht ist die Vermittlung von wissenschaftlichen […]
Monatsarchiv für March 2014
Food and Urbanization Workshop
The Institute of Near Eastern Archaeology, the Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Exellence Cluster TOPOI at Freie Universität Berlin are hosting a Workshop on Food an Urbanization on March 27-28, 2014. Practices connected to the procurement, processing and consumption of food as well as methods for auditing these activities are crucial […]
Released this week: Posts on Babylonian Medicine by Ulrike Steinert
The first of three posts, entitled “Like an alien in a strange old world – Reading Mesopotamian cuneiform texts on women’s healthcare” has been released on the research blog “The Recipes Project: Food, Magic, Science, and Medicine”. This amazing blog, initiated by Elaine Leong (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) and by […]
Irving L. Finkel’s breaking news and book “The Ark Before Noah”
A cuneiform tablet throws new light on an old story: Irving L. Finkel’s breaking news and book “The Ark Before Noah” The release of BabMed project advisor I.L. Finkel’s recent book “The Ark Before Noah” about the discovery of a hitherto unknown cuneiform tablet containing the Babylonian Flood Story and a surprising description of the […]
Int. Conference: Medical Translators at Work
The Department of Classics at Humboldt-Universität Berlin is holding an International Conference on Medical Translators at Work. Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Translations in Dialogue International Conference, 20-21 March 2014, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. The workshop is free to attend, but registration is required by March 16, 2014 More … The BabMed Project has […]
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