Paul Collins is the Jaleh Hearn Curator for Ancient Near East at the Ashmolean Museum, and a Fellow of Jesus College and Wolfson College, Oxford University
Uruk may not be as well known as Babylon or Ninevah, but layers of complex, urban life have been uncovered there over the course of the 20th century
What do sculpted animals in Mesopotamian art tell us about the relationship between gods and men?
The Ashmolean Museum will offer a new perspective on a famous archaeological find this summer