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The students experimented with making ancient brews using replicas of ceramic vessels that scholars think might have been used to brew beer in Mesopotamia.
April 30, 2025
Text by Mike Cummings, YaleNews For several hours on a recent Friday morning, a Yale laboratory became a Bronze Age brewery. Inside the lab, in the Yale Chemistry Research Building, a group of students attempted to...
Addressing the Roots of Conflict through “The Human Needs Map: A Tool for Peacebuilding”
April 28, 2025
The Council on Middle East Studies (CMES) hosted a colloquium at the end of March to shed light on a proposed new tool for global peacebuilding: the “Human Needs Map,” developed and presented by Dr. Deborah Heifetz...
Cuneiform tablet of food recipe. Courtesy of the Yale Babylonian Collection
April 19, 2025
On April 19th, 2025 Live Science released a story by Marilyn Perkins featuring the Cuneiform tablets of food recipes housed at the Yale Babylonian Collection. The story was published under the title “What’s the...
Illuminated and ordinary: Exhibition explores the world of Islamic manuscripts
March 11, 2025
Text by Mike Cummings, YaleNews In 1807, Omar ibn Said, an itinerant Islamic scholar in West Africa, was taken prisoner during a military conflict and enslaved. About 37 years old at the time of his enslavement, he...
What do you know? Yale’s Dr. T aims to fill some gaps
March 4, 2025
Text by Lisa Prevost, YaleNews What do the American playwright Susan Glaspell, the renowned African blues guitarist Ali Farka Touré, and the Southeast Asian dyeing technique known as ikat have in common? They are...