Epidemic: family affair in Mesopotamia
Audio 03:29
By: Caroline Lachowsky
In this new episode of Little and Great Epidemic History, the assyriologist Cécile Michel goes back in time in the ancient Near East, present-day Iraq to Anatolia, 4,000 years ago. It takes us into the intimacy of the families of Assyrian merchants and it is in the correspondence exchanged that the author discovered the repercussions that epidemics could have in the private sphere: family affair in Mesopotamia.
- Iraq
- Health and Medicine
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