{"id":42,"date":"2021-12-14T11:31:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T10:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/knowtheancients\/?p=42"},"modified":"2021-12-14T11:31:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T10:31:09","slug":"times-article-on-the-niniveh-medical-project-ninmed-a-progeny-of-the-former-erc-project-babylonian-medicine-babmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/knowtheancients\/2021\/12\/14\/times-article-on-the-niniveh-medical-project-ninmed-a-progeny-of-the-former-erc-project-babylonian-medicine-babmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Times Article on the Niniveh Medical Project (NinMed) &#8211; a progeny of the former ERC-project Babylonian Medicine (BabMed)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/oracc.museum.upenn.edu\/asbp\/ninmed\/project\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">NinMed<\/a> makes available for the first time the world&#8217;s most standardised, structured and systematised corpus of medical literature prior to Galen: the &#8222;Nineveh Medical Encyclopaedia&#8220; from the library of Ashurbanipal, King of Assyria (669-c.630 BC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project is funded by a Wellcome Research Resources Grant, with the title &#8222;Introducing Assyrian Medicine: healthcare fit for a king&#8220; (220149\/Z\/20\/Z), 2020-2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NinMed benefits from resources developed by the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/oracc.museum.upenn.edu\/asbp\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ashurbanipal Library Project<\/a>, and the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/geschkult.fu-berlin.de\/e\/babmed\" target=\"_blank\">BabMed project<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On December 10, 2021 NinMed was mentioned in a Times\u2019 article, written by Sara Tor: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/assyrians-couldnt-face-the-bald-truth-2-600-years-ago-bvndrlq9s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cAssyrians couldn\u2019t face the bald truth 2,600 years ago. The secrets of clay tablets, thought to be the world\u2019s first encyclopaedia for medicine, are being revealed at last \u2013 including a bizarre and complex remedy for hair loss.\u201d<\/a> \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NinMed makes available for the first time the world&#8217;s most standardised, structured and systematised corpus of medical literature prior to Galen: the &#8222;Nineveh Medical Encyclopaedia&#8220; from the library of Ashurbanipal, King of Assyria (669-c.630 BC). The project is funded by a Wellcome Research Resources Grant, with the title &#8222;Introducing Assyrian Medicine: healthcare fit for a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/knowtheancients\/2021\/12\/14\/times-article-on-the-niniveh-medical-project-ninmed-a-progeny-of-the-former-erc-project-babylonian-medicine-babmed\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201eTimes Article on the Niniveh Medical Project (NinMed) &#8211; a progeny of the former ERC-project Babylonian Medicine (BabMed)\u201c<\/span> weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1825,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/knowtheancients\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/knowtheancients\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/knowtheancients\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/knowtheancients\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/knowtheancients\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/knowtheancients\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/knowtheancients\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/knowtheancients\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/knowtheancients\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/knowtheancients\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}