The International Festival of Arts & Ideas will mark its 20th year this summer with offerings that range from a sweeping history of 1990s music performed by award-winning artist Taylor Mac to a processional performance — by local lakes — featuring...
Analyzing ancient texts on cuneiform, or clay tablets, may seem like an esoteric endeavor.Not so, say the scholars working on the Yale Cuneiform Commentaries Project (CCP). They argue that these are just some of the first traces of a tradition that is...
William W. Hallo, the William M. Laffan Professor Emeritus of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature, died on March 27 at the age of 87.William W. HalloHallo spent his career studying, teaching, and writing about Assyriology, archaeology, biblical studies...