Peter Damerow of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science examined beer-brewing technologies of the Sumerians. “Given our limited knowledge about the Sumerian brewing processes, we cannot say for sure whether their end product even contained alcohol,” he wrote in the Cuneiform Digital Library Journal. Damerow died late last year. Officials from Georgia’s […]

A three-judge panel in Rome has ruled that the statute of limitations has run out on the charges against American antiquities dealer Robert Hecht, but that artifacts confiscated from his homes should be returned to the Italian state. “I am not proud to say that Italian justice is slow. It is mortifying,” said retired prosecutor Paolo […]