Word: mesopotamia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...latest release, "Mesopotamia," a six-song "mini-disk," provides the first evidence that the group craves artistic progression. The work is a turn away from the undirected insanity of the first two albums to a sort of directed insanity, governed by David Byrne, the group's new producer and ployrhythm maestro of Talking Heads fame. Byrne seems to have effected a tilt by the band to the funk side of its background. "Mesopotamia" doesn't give up the fun of "The B-52's" and "Wild Planet". It merely is a rechanneling of the 52's focus from outrageous melodies...
While describing the relationship between art and economics. Oberhuber noted that the sort of budgetary that led to the cancellation of the extension did not exist in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, several students in the class said yesterday...
...Ebla text shows a town named Ur near Haran, the biblical town in Syria from which Abraham moved into the promised land. Genesis, however, says that Abraham grew up in "Ur of the Chaldees," understood by both the biblical and Islamic traditions to be the famous Ur in lower Mesopotamia. Ebla aside, the Israelites were instructed in Deuteronomy 26: 5 to recite that Abraham was "a wandering Aramaean." In other words, the Bible labeled him a Syrian...
...words have already been found at Ebla. Thus, he says, "not a single one of the Old Testaments in English is up to date." For accuracy, he thinks future translators and historians must rely far more on Ebla and Ugarit, and less on the back ground from Egypt and Mesopotamia...
Amid the outpouring of dry statistics, the rich fabric of an independent culture has begun to emerge, one so affluent that it may well have rivaled ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. In the halcyon years of the archive (c. 2350-2250 B.C.), the metropolis lured traders from Persia, present-day Turkey, Lebanon, Damascus, Sumer and Egypt. Students journeyed from Mari, Kish and Emar to enroll at the academy, then went back home to practice their craft. The prosperity was partly due to Ebla's agricultural acumen. One tablet records the warehousing of 548,500 measures of barley-enough...