Priority Reading

KHARSAG RESEARCH PROJECT

 

Kharsag Index • • Aims of Research Project • • Proposed site for Kharsag/Eden • • Background, Aims & Objectives • • Survey Areas • • Local Area • • Kharsag Epics • • Origins of Agriculture • • Mode of Domestication • • Project People • • Bibliography • • Location Maps • • Image Gallery • • Christian O'Brien's Lecture Map

 

With this Settlement will come prosperity; an enclosed reservoir - a water trap - should be established. The good land is full of water; because of the water, food will be plentiful - The Lady Ninkharsag - Kharsag Epic No.2. - Translation of archaic Sumerian cuneiform recovered from the remains of the Nippur Library in 1896.

 


White stone statue of the Lady Ninkharsag (mama in Accadian) in the guise of the goddess of irrigation, found during excavations at Mari on the Upper Euphrates in Syria. On display in the Aleppo museum.

 

Section 2

 

 



Index Kharsag - Garden of Eden



Subjects Index