http://www.aakkl.helsinki.fi/melammu/project/prdescription.php
This is an update from the initial post from 3 Apr 2012 on the Melammu Project. From the homepage:
General description:
The Assyrian and Babylonian Intellectual Heritage Project
(Melammu) investigates the continuity, transformation and diffusion of
Mesopotamian culture throughout the ancient world from the second
millennium BC until Islamic times. A central objective of the project is
to create an electronic database collecting the relevant textual,
art-historical, archaeological, ethnographic and linguistic evidence and
making it easily accessible on the Internet. In addition, the project
organizes annual symposia focusing on different aspects of cultural
continuity and evolution in the ancient world.
Each symposium of the Melammu Project has a central theme,
selected by the members of the Project at the previous symposium. The
purpose of the Melammu Symposia is to promote interdisciplinary research
and cross-cultural studies by providing a forum in which cultural
continuity, diffusion and transformation in the ancient world can be
assessed systematically on a long-term basis. The emphasis is on
continued interchange of ideas between specialists in different
disciplines, with the goal of gradually but steadily increasing the
number of participants and thus breaking down the walls separating the
individual disciplines. Although each symposium focuses on a different
theme, since the primary purpose of the symposia is to encourage
interdisciplinary cooperation per se, papers not necessarily related to a
specific theme but contributing to the overall scope of the project are
welcome at every meeting.
