<story><title>5k-year-old tavern with food still inside discovered in iraq</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/5000-year-old-tavern-discovered-in-iraq-180981564/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jollyllama</author><text>Great, it used to be a nice, chill place to grab a drink and some food but now it&amp;#x27;ll be swamped with tourists.</text></comment>
<story><title>5k-year-old tavern with food still inside discovered in iraq</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/5000-year-old-tavern-discovered-in-iraq-180981564/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>photochemsyn</author><text>Internet Archive Scholar has some interesting results for &amp;quot;Lagash&amp;quot;, it&amp;#x27;s a nice resource. See this from 1956:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.org&amp;#x2F;details&amp;#x2F;sim_transactions-of-the-american-philosophical-society_1956-09_46_0&amp;#x2F;page&amp;#x2F;211&amp;#x2F;mode&amp;#x2F;1up?view=theater&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.org&amp;#x2F;details&amp;#x2F;sim_transactions-of-the-american...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &amp;quot;This is the dream contained in the famous Cylinder A of Gudea (published in TCL VIII), the ensi of the Sumerian city of Lagash, whose floruit falls about the very beginning of the second millennium B.C. Gudea, ruler of Lagash, desired to build a fitting temple for his god, NinGirsu, and, as was customary throughout the entire span of existence of the Mesopotamian civilization, the latter sent a dream...&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;These kinds of modern excavations reveal a lot more about ordinary daily life than the older translation of temple documents and royal inscriptions do, however.</text></comment>