Discovering Daily life in ancient Southern Babylonia

In this talk Professor Jacob Dahl will narrate a day in the life of
an ordinary Babylonian person, not a king or a scribe, but a
labourer working the fields of southern Babylonia. Professor Jacob
Dahl, Professor of Assyriology, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford
Discovering Daily life in ancient Southern Babylonia - In this talk
Professor Jacob Dahl will narrate a day in the life of an ordinary
Babylonian person, not a king or a scribe, but a labourer working
the fields of southern Babylonia. Professor Dahl will also discuss
how to discover the lives of the less fortunate members of society.
It will feature glimpses of how the other half of Babylonia lived.
Humanities Light Night – Oxford Research Unwrapped! As part of the
national Being Human Festival, and Oxford’s Christmas Light
Festival, Humanities Light Night - Oxford Research Unwrapped! was a
spectacular explosion of colour, sound and activity for all,
including a huge video projection onto the 3-storey Radcliffe
humanities building, premiering SOURCE: CODE which featured the
work of Oxford Humanities Professors Jacob Dahl, Richard Parkinson
and Armand D'Angour, and co-created by Oxford Humanities
researchers and The Projection Studio, world-class projection and
sound-artists. A series of talks took place during the evening,
relating to the theme ‘Discovery’. This event was part of the
Humanities Cultural Programme.