Sunday, June 07, 2020

Magnetic tracing of the wall of Uruk

TECHNOLOGY WATCH: Beneath the Euphrates Sediments: Magnetic Traces of the Mesopotamian Megacity Uruk-Warka (Jörg W.E. Fassbinder, The Ancient Near East Today).

This fascinating project was undertaken at Warka, the site of ancient Uruk, the city of Gilgamesh. In the prologue and epilogue of the Epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh points to the wall of Uruk as his enduring achievement. It's still there!

The technology of the project has the potential for wide application to archaeology.

UPDATE: Pardon the bad link. Now fixed!

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