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How was time experienced during epidemics in ancient Mesopotamia?

Updated: Sep 9, 2020

In this first video of our “Chronoi Answers” series, Dr. Irene Sibbing-Plantholt—Assyriologist and research associate at the Einstein Center Chronoi—discusses how time was experienced during epidemics in ancient Mesopotamia by presenting some of the world's oldest textual sources on illness and medicine.


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