Contagion at the Mesopotamian Palace in Mari, Syria

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Inner courtyard of the royal palace of Mari, located in the extreme south-east of Syria. CC BY-SA 2.5

By: Caroline Lachowsky

How to avoid contamination? The question was already posed 4,000 years ago in the ancient Near East as the assyriologist Cécile Michel recounts in this new episode of "Small and big stories of epidemics": Contagion at the Mesopotamian palace of Mari.

  • Health and Medicine
  • Syria

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