History Exhibition1st Arr., Paris
🗺️The exhibition is woven into the permanent Oriental Antiquities galleries
💧Look for canals, aqueducts, and artificial lakes from early hydraulic engineering
Ancient Mesopotamians invented irrigation, canals, and aqueducts to tame the Tigris and Euphrates. This Louvre exhibition weaves their hydraulic marvels with flood myths and asks what their environmental choices mean for us now.
Mesopotamian archaeology
environmental history
ancient engineering
flood myths
Monday, September 28,
9:00 AM
History Exhibition1st Arr., Paris
🗺️The exhibition is woven into the permanent Oriental Antiquities galleries
💧Look for canals, aqueducts, and artificial lakes from early hydraulic engineering
Ancient Mesopotamians invented irrigation, canals, and aqueducts to tame the Tigris and Euphrates. This Louvre exhibition weaves their hydraulic marvels with flood myths and asks what their environmental choices mean for us now.
Mesopotamian archaeology
environmental history
ancient engineering
flood myths
Monday, September 28,
9:00 AM