In the course of a collaboration with the University of Baghdad, LMU's Enrique Jiménez has rediscovered a text that had been lost for a thousand years. A paper on this discovery is published in the journal Iraq. "It's a fascinating hymn that describes Babylon in all its majesty and gives insights into the lives of its inhabitants, male and female," says Jiménez. Babylon was founded in Mesopotamia around 2000 BC. Once the largest city in the world, it was a cultural metropolis in which works were written that form part of our global literary heritage today. Digitizing Cuneiform: An Epic Task Babylonian texts were composed in cuneiform writing on clay tablets, which have survived only in fragments. One of the
