The procession street at Babylon, Mesopotamia, Iraq. The street was built by Nebuchadnezzar II, 6th century BC.
Quite a few of the antique clay tablets which Prof. Kristin Kleber works with look as if a chicken has walked across damp clay. That is what the non-specialist sees. For Kleber, however - an Assyriologist at the University of Münster - they are important sources of information about the way people in humanity’s first advanced cultures lived and thought. In particular, it is the cultural and linguistic wealth that fascinates her. “The ancient Near East has a three thousand-year-old history,’ says Kleber. “A large number of textual sources have still not been researched.’ Clay tablets are repeatedly being found in excavations in countries of the Near East.
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