Dominique Charpin, a specialist in the Paleo-Babylonian period, is recognized as one of the world's leading Assyriologists. His work has already profoundly renewed our knowledge of Mesopotamia in the second millennium BC. The study of Mesopotamia is far from having yielded up all its secrets, and still has much to offer us. To do so, it must equip itself with the necessary tools and energies, in particular for the proper exploitation of some of the most extraordinary written sources of all antiquity: the hundreds of thousands of cuneiform tablets uncovered by excavations; an abundance that constitutes both an opportunity and a challenge for Assyriology.
The opening lecture will take place on Thursday, October 2, 2014, at 6 pm.
Free admission subject to availability.
