Before Bayeux: Missing Mesopotamian Tapestries

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• Professor Nicholas Postgate (University of Cambridge)
• Tuesday 14 October 2025, 17:15-19:30
• McDonald Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

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We often, for understandable reasons concentrate our efforts on the data we have, at the expense of the data we don’t have. If the Mesopotamians had tapestries, for obvious reasons we don’t have any of them, but there is plenty of evidence that they did have them, and I will review this evidence and speculate on how we should respond to proof of their existence, and the important role tapestries must have fulfilled in the 2nd and 1st millennia, if not earlier.

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This talk is part of the Ancient Near East Seminar Series series.

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