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About the author:Carol H. Shiue is the author of the chapter: "The organization and scope of grain markets in Qing China (1644-1911)" and is an associate professor in the Department of Economics at ...
What we know about Babylonia is mostly derived from clay tablets. Tens of thousands of these cuneiform texts have been found in the last century and for some periods these tell us a great deal about ...
Si.427 is a hand tablet from 1900-1600 BCE, created by an Babylonian surveyor. It’s made out of clay, and the surveyor wrote on it with a stylus. Despite what you may have thought in school, all those ...
Visualizing the greatest metropolis in the ancient world requires the full powers of imagination. This is partly due to simple geology. The sun-hardened mud bricks favored by Babylon’s builders have ...
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