The SNF-funded Sinergia project Hydrography of Mesopotamia. Rivers and Channels in Babylonia from the 4th to the 1st Millennium BCE (HyMes) explores the development and significance of river and canal networks in southern Mesopotamia from the fourth to the first millennium BCE. Through an interdisciplinary collaboration between the Institute of Archaeological Sciences and the Institute of Geography at the University of Bern, the Swiss National Data and Service Center for the Humanities (DaSCH), and the Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, archaeological, geographical, and philological data are systematically integrated. The philological research group based in Berlin focuses on the analysis of cuneiform sources to reconstruct the historical hydrography of southern Mesopotamia.

For further information: https://hymes.ch/

Institution: Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Project Leader: PD Dr. Ingo Schrakamp