Word: mesopotamia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Renaissance to Modern" and the other five surveys multiplied. They became "Introduction to Early Christian and Byzantine Art and Architecture (4th-15th centuries)," "Art of Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia" and 11 other narrowly-focused courses...
Through July. "Impressions of Mesopotamia: Seals from the Ancient Near East." Featuring 24 seals and charting their stylistic and functional development over 3000 years of history...
SCIENCE: How Doom Came to Mesopotamia...
...undone by a combination of climatic catastrophes. First a volcanic eruption blanketed the region in ash. Then a drought, which eventually lasted 300 years, crippled the farming communities on which the cities depended, forcing urban dwellers to abandon their empty granaries and silent temples. Refugees migrated to southern Mesopotamia (now Iraq), which had escaped the disaster. But the unexpected influx of people from the north so strained the region's resources that the Akkadian empire fell to neighboring hordes...
First described 3,800 years ago in Mesopotamia, rabies has always inspired a special terror because of the gruesome and inexorable way it progresses once it takes hold of a victim. It attacks the nervous system, producing symptoms such as irrational furies, fearfulness and foaming at the mouth. The difficulty that patients have in swallowing water or food led to the disease's other common name: hydrophobia. Since the virus moves through the body inside nerve tissue rather than the blood, the disease triggers no antibodies and can't be detected during its incubation. Once it reaches the brain, death...