Badè cuneiform tablets on display at UC Berkeley's Doe Library

A selection of ancient Mesopotamian artifacts from the Badè Museum Collection are currently on display at the Bernice Layne Brown Gallery in UC Berkeley's Doe Library. They will be available for viewing until February 26, 2010.

The exhibition, "Development of Written Language in the Ancient Near East," (exhibition website) explores the development of writing systems in the ancient Near East beginning with Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphics, and Proto-Sinaitic through the Medieval Islamic period.

For more information, contact Shayee H.A. Khanaka, Librarian for Linguistics and Middle Eastern Studies, The Library #438 Doe Library, Berkeley, CA 94720, skhanaka@library.berkeley.edu, 510-768-7620.