Babylonians
The Assyrians were really not so different from us
Selena Wisnom shows us children toiling over their writing tablets, taking pride in schoolwork, and a heartbroken scribe finding consolation in literature after the death of his king in battle
A toast to beer, from Plato to Frank Zappa
‘He was a wise man who invented beer,’ said Plato, although I imagine he had changed his mind by the…
