In this talk Professor Jacob Dahl will narrate a day in the life of an ordinary Babylonian person, not a king or a scribe, but a labourer working the fields of southern Babylonia. Professor Jacob Dahl, Professor of Assyriology, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford Discovering Daily life in ancient Southern Babylonia - In this talk Professor Jacob Dahl will narrate a day in the life of an ordinary Babylonian person, not a king or a scribe, but a labourer working the fields of southern Babylonia. Professor Dahl will also discuss how to discover the lives of the less fortunate members of society. It will feature glimpses of how the other half of Babylonia lived. Humanities Light Night – Oxford Research Unwrapped! As part of the national Being Human Festival, and Oxford’s Christmas Light Festival, Humanities Light Night - Oxford Research Unwrapped! was a spectacular explosion of colour, sound and activity for all, including a huge video projection onto the 3-storey Radcliffe humanities building, premiering SOURCE: CODE which featured the work of Oxford Humanities Professors Jacob Dahl, Richard Parkinson and Armand D'Angour, and co-created by Oxford Humanities researchers and The Projection Studio, world-class projection and sound-artists. A series of talks took place during the evening, relating to the theme ‘Discovery’. This event was part of the Humanities Cultural Programme.

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