April 2016

Tell Asmar, Northern Palace drainage system, arched brick drain below street in F15. Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Diyala Archaeological Database, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

By ANE Today Editor

Cities & Urbanism Daily Life Mesopotamia

Trash and Toilets in Mesopotamia: Sanitation and Early Urbanism

For much of the world sanitary disposal of human and other waste remains a critical issue. What do the first cities of ancient Mesopotamia have something to teach us about this ver