From Canvas to Capsule
How one family's relationship with Mesopotamian heritage spans generations. On Shakir Hassan Al Said, the Baghdad Modern Art Group, and the design philosophy of Nineveh Laboratories.
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From the Archive
The scholarship behind the formulas: cuneiform research, archaeobotany, and the history of Mesopotamian medicine.
Why We Start with Black Seed
Of the herbs named in the Mesopotamian medical corpus, Nigella sativa appears more frequently than almost any other. Here is what the tablets actually say about it.
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Reading the Tablets: How Mesopotamian Herbal Records Work
The Assyrian medical texts aren't recipes in any simple sense. Understanding them requires knowing how the scribes thought.
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The Library of Ashurbanipal: Where the Formulas Were Found
The royal library held over 30,000 clay tablets. This is the collection that gives the brand its name and its foundation.
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