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Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries: The Archaeological Evidence P. R. S. Moorey
Publisher: Eisenbrauns

Evidence for a forgotten ancient language which dates back more than 2500 years, to the time of the Assyrian Empire, has been found by archaeologists working in Turkey. In the 2nd century BCE, the Chinese constructed the Dujiangyan Irrigation System to irrigate huge swaths of farmland. During a recent survey, a new generation of archaeologists found a vast hill—nearly 300 feet by 300 feet—covered with slag from smelting copper. And, by the 2nd century CE, the Han Dynasty The center pivot became king of the industrial sprinklers due to its versatility. According to Genesis 14, the “cities of the plain,” which include Sodom, Gomorrah, Zoar, Zeboiim and Admah, join forces to battle a coalition of Mesopotamian kings in the “Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea),” a clear reference to the Dead Sea Finding no clear archaeological evidence for Sodom and Gomorrah in the vicinity of Zoar, however, W.F. One of the Anyone who has perused the whole of the material is struck by the remarkable fact that Etemenanki [the fabulous ziggurat of Babylon] is nowhere mentioned in the description of the course of the [akitu] festival though numerous other sacred localities in Babylon are referred to. Social networks can be discerned in archaeological materials since artefacts are the direct result of social relationships (Knappett 2011; Coward 2010; Graham and Ruffini 2007: 325-331). It is the southern Mesopotamian backdrop that provides the basis for studying the account in light of what is known of the culture and history of Mesopotamia. Evidence shows that ancient Shahdad had a large metalworking industry by this time. If the networks we see in the ancient evidence correspond to networks generated from the computational simulation of our models for the ancient economy, we have a powerful tool for exploring antiquity, for playing with different ideas about how the ancient world worked (cf. Archaeological evidence suggests the use of irrigation to grow barley in parts of ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt and Persia that wouldn't otherwise support it.