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as there are problems with the excavation records, and other explanations for the collection. However, one thing it does offer is insights into ancient interest in an even more ancient past, and possibly even some attempts at early archaeology.

C. Leonard Woolley, the lead excavator at Ur for most of the seasons, called that cylindrical tablet the earliest known museum label, and hence the key to the meaning of the collection of objects as an ancient museum. However, these claims can and should be called into question,

There, objects from much earlier eras were found on the Neo-Babylonian layer of the palace, supposedly in a single room, together with a “key” that unlocked the meaning of the collection — a cylindrical clay tablet that described another object in the room and noted that it was there “for viewing”.

This talk will look at a curious collection of objects at the centre of her new book, Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History. These objects were found in the palace of a princess named Ennigaldi-Nanna in the city of Ur dated to the 6th century BCE.

@bsrome.bsky.social @bsathens.bsky.social @bilnas.bsky.social @cbrl.bsky.social@thebiaankara.bsky.social @bisi1932.bsky.social , The British Institute in Eastern Africa and The British Institute of Persian Studies

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From Rome to Ankara, from the Peloponnese to the Levant, we chart these women’s professional achievements, archaeological discoveries and the vibrant networks they formed in a male-dominated field.

Explore our interactive history to learn about the interconnected lives and ground-breaking work of women archaeologists such as Eugénie Sellers Strong, Winifred Lamb, Yusra Al-Ḥaifawiyah and Kathleen Kenyon.