IMAGINIBUS: A blog about looking at life like art The Art of Mesopotamian City-States in the Louvre September 17, 2015 This is an installment of Creative September on the theme of Beginnings (if you missed it, check out a description of the project here!). I wanted to find the oldest object in the Musée du Louvre. For a museum with the aim of being universal and showing humanity's heritage, wher..

UR: CITY OF THE SUMERIAN RENAISSANCE In Today’s post Luke from the Visitor Team looks into the history and economy of the ancient Sumerian city of Ur under its third dynasty, original home to some of the clay cuneiform tablets in the Manchester Museum’s collection. For more information on our Archaeology collections, have a look at the curator’s blog. The partially reconstructed remains of the G..