Violence in Mesopotamia

Version française Violence is becoming an important matter for historians as well as archaeologists since recent time. New researches are now changing our appreciation of the extending of violence in the ancient Near East, although gender’s, family’s and work’s violence still remains more often silent. Charnier, Tell Brak, IVth millenium From an archaeological point of view, three are the domains were this violence could appear, apart from the architectural remains of fortifications: discove..