TORONTO — The University of Toronto is honouring one of its researchers who discovered a long-lost Mesopotamian queen using books alone. The archeologists also discovered a treasure trove of gold, Spurrier said. “Few papers were being published, so the academic community was not getting information,” Spurrier said. The book, published in 1999, was brought over from Baghdad by one of the university’s professors and placed in the department’s rare book archive. “It has a woman standing in front of a goddess, around the rim it has her name: Queen Hama.”She tried to look for information about Queen Hama.

Source: National Post February 12, 2019 18:56 UTC