Then again, I've spent many hours in the British Museum, and many hours reading up on the history of the area.
I think my favourite single exhibit in the BM is the reconstruction of the Ur grave goods found on the head of a sacrificed servant girl; and the original (http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/me/c/crushed_skull_and_head-dress.aspx) (including the crushed fragments of her skull) which is right beside it.
(Which, admittedly, is Sumerian rather than Akkadian, but you get the idea.)
The downfall of Akkad and Ur is also interesting to me from an academic standpoint, since it may be one of the textbook cases for climate change and the effects of same on a centralised agricultural state.
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Date: 2007-07-06 03:00 pm (UTC)Then again, I've spent many hours in the British Museum, and many hours reading up on the history of the area.
I think my favourite single exhibit in the BM is the reconstruction of the Ur grave goods found on the head of a sacrificed servant girl; and the original (http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/me/c/crushed_skull_and_head-dress.aspx) (including the crushed fragments of her skull) which is right beside it.
(Which, admittedly, is Sumerian rather than Akkadian, but you get the idea.)
The downfall of Akkad and Ur is also interesting to me from an academic standpoint, since it may be one of the textbook cases for climate change and the effects of same on a centralised agricultural state.