Timekeeping in Mesopotamia was purely cyclical: the luni-solar calendar was punctuated by both the sun (alternating days and nights, succession of seasons) and the moon (timekeeping with lunar months). We'll see how the root DūR expressed the notion of " back to the point of origin ". Mesopotamians did not move forward with the future in front of them.
11:00 - 12:00
Lecture
The concept of time
Dominique Charpin
11:00 - 12:00