Ancient Knowledge Networks
A Social Geography of Cuneiform Scholarship in First-Millennium Assyria and Babylonia
Eleanor Robson (Author)
Ancient Knowledge Networks is a book about how knowledge travels, in minds and bodies as well as in writings. It explores the forms knowledge takes and the meanings it accrues, and how these meanings are shaped by the peoples who use it.
Addressing the relationships between political power, family ties, religious commitments and literate scholarship in the ancient Middle East of the first millennium BC, Eleanor Robson focuses on two regions where cuneiform script was the predominant writing medium: Assyria in the north of modern-day Syria and Iraq, and Babylonia to the south of modern-day Baghdad. She investigates how networks of knowledge enabled cuneiform intellectual culture to endure and adapt over the course of five world empires until its eventual demise in the mid-first century BC. In doing so, she also studies Assyriological and historical method, both now and over the past two centuries, asking how the field has shaped and been shaped by the academic concerns and fashions of the day. Above all, Ancient Knowledge Networks is an experiment in writing about ‘Mesopotamian science’, as it has often been known, using geographical and social approaches to bring new insights into the intellectual history of the world’s first empires.
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Creating a Framework for Developing Sessional Teachers in Higher Education
Neil Sutherland, Alex Standen,
24 August 2026
Bringing Powerful Knowledge into Classrooms
Mark Hardman, Marie Nilsberth, Mikko Puustinen,
02 July 2026
How Alex Bloom Built Radical Democratic Secondary Education in Post-war London
Michael Fielding, Mark Erickson,
15 September 2026
Translation Studies before ‘Translation Studies’
Kathryn Batchelor, Iryna Odrekhivska,
15 January 2026
Literary Translation in Latin America in the Twenty-First Century
Dirce Waltrick do Amarante, Letícia Maria Vieira de Souza Goellner,
04 June 2026
Inclusion, Diversity and Innovation in Translation Education
Alejandro Bolaños García-Escribano, Mazal Oaknín, Olga Castro,
01 October 2024
Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Short Fiction
Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva, Julio Ludemir, Maria Aparecida Andrade Salgueiro,
03 September 2024
Júlia Lopes de Almeida, Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva, Cintia Kozonoi Vezzani, Jason Rhys Parry,
17 July 2023
The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 14
Philip Schofield, Tim Causer, Chris Riley,
07 May 2026
Urban Transformations in Sierra Leone
Joseph M. Macarthy, Braima Koroma, Andrea Rigon, Alexandre Apsan Frediani, Andrea Klingel,
05 December 2024
Urban Violence and Marginalised Communities
Ashvin Devasundaram, Stamatis Zografos, Márcio Mattos, Zoe Holman,
25 March 2026
Family Life in the Time of COVID
Katherine Twamley, Humera Iqbal, Charlotte Faircloth,
31 August 2023
Imperial Science, the Organic Movement and the Path to Shangri-La, 1900-1969
Ashok Malhotra,
23 March 2026
Co-production of Knowledge in Action
Cassidy Johnson, Vanesa Castán Broto, Wilbard Kombe, Catalina Ortiz, Barbara Lipietz, Emmanuel Osuteye, Caren Levy,
15 September 2025
Urban Informality and the Built Environment
Nerea Amorós Elorduy, Nikhilesh Sinha, Colin Marx,
12 March 2024
Repurposing the Green Belt in the 21st Century
Peter Bishop, Alona Martinez Perez, Rob Roggema, Lesley Williams,
09 November 2020
Medical Humanity and Inhumanity in the German-Speaking World
Mererid Puw Davies, Sonu Shamdasani,
15 April 2020
The Ambivalence of Power in the Twenty-First Century Economy
Vadim Radaev, Zoya Kotelnikova,
07 July 2022
Captioning and Subtitling for d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing Audiences
Soledad Zárate, Soledad Zárate,
14 January 2021
Critical Heritage and Social Justice
Veysel Apaydin, Kalliopi Fouseki, David Francis, Jonathan Gardner, Sara Perry,
05 March 2026
Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza, Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza, Tomás Espino Barrera, Tomás Espino Barrera,
06 October 2025
Comparative Perspectives on the Rise of the Brazilian Novel
Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva, Sandra Guardini Vasconcelos,
14 May 2020
Creative Critical Interventions for Social Justice
Natasha Tanna, Abeyamí Ortega Domínguez, Hakan Sandal-Wilson,
04 February 2026
Preeti Kumari, Shreya Mehta, Anjali Nair, Anusuya Nayak, Yangchen Roy, Vyom Sharma,
16 February 2026
A History of Scientific Journals
Aileen Fyfe, Noah Moxham, Julie McDougall-Waters, Camilla Mørk Røstvik,
03 October 2022
Panopticon versus New South Wales and other writings on Australia
Tim Causer, Philip Schofield, Jeremy Bentham,
24 February 2022
The Faces of Authoritarianism and Strategies of Dissent in Contemporary Brazil
Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos, Katerina Hatzikidi,
15 May 2025
The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 13
Philip Schofield, Tim Causer, Chris Riley, Jeremy Bentham,
11 April 2024
Online and Distance Education for a Connected World
Linda Amrane-Cooper, David Baume, Stephen Brown, Stylianos Hatzipanagos, Philip Powell, Sarah Sherman, Alan Tait,
27 March 2023
Expanding Fields of Architectural Discourse and Practice
Matthew Butcher, Megan O'Shea,
27 November 2020
Generalism in Clinical Practice and Education
Sophie Park, Kay Leedham-Green, John Launer,
25 July 2024
Ethnographic Experiments with Artists, Designers and Boundary Objects
Francisco Martínez,
01 November 2021
Daniel Miller, Laila Abed Rabho, Patrick Awondo, Maya de Vries, Marília Duque, Pauline Garvey, Laura Haapio-Kirk, Charlotte Hawkins, Alfonso Otaegui, Shireen Walton, Xinyuan Wang,
28 July 2022
Daniel Miller, Laila Abed Rabho, Patrick Awondo, Maya de Vries, Marília Duque, Pauline Garvey, Laura Haapio-Kirk, Charlotte Hawkins, Alfonso Otaegui, Shireen Walton, Xinyuan Wang, شريف نورهان, فاضل هبة,
20 March 2022
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28 February 2019
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Elisabetta Costa, Nell Haynes, Tom McDonald, Razvan Nicolescu, Jolynna Sinanan, Juliano Spyer, Shriram Venkatraman, Xinyuan Wang,
28 February 2019
Women in the History of Science
Hannah Wills, Sadie Harrison, Erika Jones, Rebecca Martin, Farrah Lawrence-Mackey,
06 March 2023
Michael Hennessy Picard, Albert Brenchat-Aguilar, Timothy Carroll, Jane Gilbert, Nicola Miller,
03 July 2023
Urban Claims and the Right to the City
Julian Walker, Marcos Bau Carvalho, Ilinca Diaconescu,
16 March 2020
Towards a Global Core Value System in Doctoral Education
Maresi Nerad, David Bogle, Ulrike Kohl, Conor O’Carroll, Christian Peters, Beate Scholz,
27 September 2022
Textbook of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Deepak K. Kalaskar B.Tech PhD, Professor Peter E. Butler MD, FRCSI, FRCS, FRCS (Plast), Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, UCL, Shadi Ghali,
02 August 2016
The Tenacity of the Couple-Norm
Sasha Roseneil, Isabel Crowhurst, Tone Hellesund, Ana Cristina Santos, Mariya Stoilova,
05 November 2020
Studying Diversity, Migration and Urban Multiculture
Mette Louise Berg, Magdalena Nowicka,
02 July 2019
Schooling for Refugee Children
Eleanore Hargreaves, Brian Lally, Bassel Akar, Jumana Al-Waeli, Jasmine Costello,
07 May 2024
Rethinking the Andes–Amazonia Divide
Adrian J. Pearce, David G. Beresford-Jones, Paul Heggarty,
21 October 2020
Rethinking Urban Risk and Resettlement in the Global South
Cassidy Johnson, Garima Jain, Allan Lavell,
10 June 2021
The Responsibility of Intellectuals
Nicholas Allott, Chris Knight, Neil Smith, Noam Chomsky,
03 September 2019
Reading Randomised Controlled Trials
Robert Savage, Amy Fox, Anneka Dawson, Helen Gray, Clare Huxley,
03 March 2025
O Smartphone Global: Uma tecnologia para além dos jovens
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25 February 2022
On Making in the Digital Humanities
Julianne Nyhan, Geoffrey Rockwell, Stéfan Sinclair, Alexandra Ortolja-Baird,
13 March 2023
New Directions in Private Law Theory
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16 October 2023
Material Culture and (Forced) Migration
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10 February 2022
Knowledge, Policy and Practice in Education and the Struggle for Social Justice
Andrew Brown, Emma Wisby,
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An Introduction to Waste Management and Circular Economy
Stijn van Ewijk, Julia Stegemann,
05 December 2023
Harini Amarasuriya, Tobias Kelly, Sidharthan Maunaguru, Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic, Jonathan Spencer,
01 September 2020
Herman Gorter, Paul Vincent MA, MTA FCIoL, Honorary Senior Lecturer, Department of Dutch, UCL,
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Rodney Harrison, Caitlin DeSilvey, Cornelius Holtorf, Sharon Macdonald, Nadia Bartolini, Esther Breithoff, Harald Fredheim, Antony Lyons, Sarah May, Jennie Morgan, Sefryn Penrose,
28 July 2020
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08 December 2020
Daniel Miller, Laila Abed Rabho, Patrick Awondo, Maya de Vries, Marília Duque, Pauline Garvey, Laura Haapio-Kirk, Charlotte Hawkins, Alfonso Otaegui, Shireen Walton, Xinyuan Wang,
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Gabriel Harvey and the History of Reading
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30 March 2020
Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa
Megan Vaughan, Kafui Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Marissa Mika,
27 January 2021
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Ancient Knowledge Networks
A Social Geography of Cuneiform Scholarship in First-Millennium Assyria and Babylonia
Ancient Knowledge Networks is a book about how knowledge travels, in minds and bodies as well as in writings. It explores the forms knowledge takes and the meanings it accrues, and how these meanings are shaped by the peoples who use it.
Addressing the relationships between political power, family ties, religious commitments and literate scholarship in the ancient Middle East of the first millennium BC, Eleanor Robson focuses on two regions where cuneiform script was the predominant writing medium: Assyria in the north of modern-day Syria and Iraq, and Babylonia to the south of modern-day Baghdad. She investigates how networks of knowledge enabled cuneiform intellectual culture to endure and adapt over the course of five world empires until its eventual demise in the mid-first century BC. In doing so, she also studies Assyriological and historical method, both now and over the past two centuries, asking how the field has shaped and been shaped by the academic concerns and fashions of the day. Above all, Ancient Knowledge Networks is an experiment in writing about ‘Mesopotamian science’, as it has often been known, using geographical and social approaches to bring new insights into the intellectual history of the world’s first empires.
‘The book complicates and humanises the categories that have streamlined the study of cuneiform scholarship. In its own words, this is a book about ‘how knowledge travels’ through the people who carry it, their writings, their responsibilities and their benefactors – human and divine. It animates the lives of scholars through their movements, their works and the movements of their works, until the end of cuneiform culture in Babylon and Uruk. Ancient Knowledge Networks is a study of the history of knowledge that restores context to text – an invaluable re-evaluation of the sources to the modern scholars of Assyria and Babylonia.’
History Today
‘The second chapter …is a useful chapter for students and scholars of the Ancient Near East … Arguments are based on excellent studies of archives and salient observations about ancient communities elucidated from scanty but revealing evidence. Where the book innovates, however, is in tying all of these scholars and knowledge together.’
Journal of Near Eastern Studies
‘This is an engaging volume that takes an original approach to understanding the agents of knowledge networks and the social, geographical and cultural factors that shaped them.’
Antiquity
‘A thoughtful, well written, modern approach to the study of cuneiform culture. An essential read for those of us studying any aspect of cuneiform writing.’ Archaeological Review from Cambridge
‘In this important new book, Eleanor Robson offers a rich and fascinating sketch of cuneiform intellectual culture in Assyria and Babylonia from the late thirteenth century through the second half of the first millennium BC. …The book will be of interest not only to specialists in ancient Near Eastern studies but also to ancient historians and archaeologists studying other world areas and eras in which ancient writing systems developed.’ American Antiquity
‘The book complicates and humanises the categories that have streamlined the study of cuneiform scholarship. In its own words, this is a book about ‘how knowledge travels’ through the people who carry it, their writings, their responsibilities and their benefactors – human and divine. It animates the lives of scholars through their movements, their works and the movements of their works, until the end of cuneiform culture in Babylon and Uruk. Ancient Knowledge Networks is a study of the history of knowledge that restores context to text – an invaluable re-evaluation of the sources to the modern scholars of Assyria and Babylonia.’
Archiv fü Orientforschung
‘Eleanor Robson’s Ancient Knowledge Networks offers a fascinating portrait of the social and geographical life of cuneiform scholarship, scribal learning, or ṭupšarrūtu. It examines high cuneiform culture in the terms of the texts’ own taxonomies of knowledge, while taking full account of relevant archaeological evidence and employing micro- and macro-geographical analysis. A lucid presentation of new ideas concerning the Assyrian and Babylonian first-millennium intelligentsia and their patrons, Ancient Knowledge Networks is a book for cuneiformists as well as non-specialist readers outside the ancient Middle Eastern fields.’ – Francesca Rochberg, University of California, Berkeley