Presentation from the press kit
"None of the writings of Mesopotamian Civilization has come down to us through an unbroken tradition, as is the case with the works of Classical Antiquity, Greek or Roman, or even the biblical books: all the texts available to the Assyriologist - as the specialist in cuneiform tablets is known - come from excavations, and this is what makes them so valuable. These documents, which have survived thanks to the almost indestructible medium of clay, have the advantage of not being as biased as later accounts of events: but to be properly exploited, this "raw" documentation must be studied in its context and according to rigorous methods..."
