The Importance of Women in Ancient Mesopotamia

In ancient Greece, as we know, is a highly patriarchal society where women were totally excluded from public and political life. Equally, in ancient Mesopotamia, we do have women in positions of really quite high status. So David, we have this picture of Mesopotamia during the Sumerian period as a relatively egalitarian place. But some of the most horrific images of slavery and suffering that you can see from the ancient world is from Assyrian reliefs from Nineveh.