ChatGPT threatens to change writing as we know it. But the Mesopotamians, who lived 4,000 years ago in modern-day Iraq, went through this kind of seismic change before us, when they invented writing.
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Beer was extremely popular in ancient Mesopotamia. Sipped through straws, it differed from today’s beer and was enjoyed by people from all walks of life.
The most exciting work at OzAsia cuts across genres, styles, and cultures to create something distinctive and new. This year, three new dance works did just that.
How did civilization emerge from small groups of hunter-gatherers? Some archaeologists focus on cooperation as the vital ingredient – and find evidence for it in the form of feast-related artifacts.
The possible join between the fragments of an ancient epic written in cuneiform in London and Geneva has been speculated for over 50 years.
From environmentalism to the meaning of life, the themes of the world’s most ancient epic are still remarkably relevant to modern readers.
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Honorary Research Associate, University of Sydney
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Reader in Computer Science and Leader of Software and Systems Engineering Research, Keele University
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Senior Lecturer in Electronic Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of Cultural Computing, Director NVIDIA Joint-Lab on Mixed Reality, University of Nottingham
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Privatdozent (Associate Professor), Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
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Exec. Director, Institute for the Advanced Study of Culture and the Environment; Professor of Anthropology, University of South Florida
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Auckland University of Technology
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Assistant Professor of History, North Carolina State University
