Ancient Near East

How 3,000-year-old poems landed in a top literary magazine

With new translations from the long-extinct Hittite language, UChicago Ph.D. student Naomi Harris brought verses from clay tablets to "The Paris Review"

Mehrnoush Soroush

Title: Assistant Professor, Ancient Near Eastern Studies; Director, Center for Ancient Middle Eastern Landscapes (CAMEL) Lab

Expertise: Ancient Near East, Application of AI in archaeology, Archaeological remote sensing, Archaeology, Spatial analysis, Water history

Departmental Website: https://mes.uchicago.edu/mehrnoush-soroush