Ancient Mesopotamia Postgraduate Student Seminars

Surgery in ancient Mesopotamia.

Many medical and therapeutic cuneiform texts have been recovered from sites in ancient Mesopotamia, but no specifically surgical text has yet been found. Although it is possible that surgical texts may be found in the future, it is rather unlikely. Their absence cannot be taken as proof that the ancient Mesopotamians did not practise surgery; it is probable that surgical techniques were handed ...

Tamil Merchant in Ancient Mesopotamia

Recent analyses of ancient Mesopotamian mitochondrial genomes have suggested a genetic link between the Indian subcontinent and Mesopotamian civilization. There is no consensus on the origin of the ancient Mesopotamians. They may be descendants of migrants, who founded regional Mesopotamian groups like that of Terqa or they may be merchants who were involved in trans Mesopotamia trade. To ident...

Graduate Student Seminars

We develop the optimal trading strategy for our broker who has non-zero inventory in three currency pairs with different level of liquidity and would like to o ff-load all inventories with a given time schedule while accepting exogenous clients orders. The mid-exchange rate satisfies constraint to exclude the triangle arbitrage. Our broker is risk-neutral, inventory averse and would like to max...

Abraham and the Chronology of Ancient Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia, the land that is today part of Iraq, Syria, and Turkey, is home to one of the oldest civilizations to have ever been discovered. It is here that the civilizations of Sumer, Babylon, and Assyria existed. This land is noteworthy in the Bible because it was here that the exiles were taken captive after the destruction of Jerusalem. It was also here that Abraham had lived before he set...

Food Science Graduate Student Seminars