We have women tending animals, women making pottery, and women at a loom weaving ... “Imagine the total darkness of Southern Mesopotamia, and the bright light of the moon on the flood plain ...

Co-editor of Women's Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia (2017), she shares with Middle East Eye that “women in the ancient Near East had about the same legal rights as men did, although they appear ...

Miss Peyton has conducted extensive research into the origins of beer for a new book and reports that a woman's touch was found on beer throughout the ages. Nearly 7,000 years ago in Mesopotamia ...

Women's Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia presents fresh and engaging translations of works that were composed or edited by female scribes and elite women of the ancient Near East. These texts provide ...

Saana Svärd was interviewed for an article in Middle East Eye highlighting significant women in ancient Mesopotamian history. Writer and critic Farah Abdessamad tells of the many influential yet ...