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The world’s first professional acrobats were flipping through the Middle East 4,000 years ago

  • Written by: Javier Alvarez-Mon, Professor in Near Eastern Archaeology and Art, Macquarie University
The world’s first professional acrobats were flipping through the Middle East 4,000 years agoThe Investiture of Zimri Lim Fresco from the palace of Mari gives us an image of royal ideology in the ancient Middle East.Louvre Museum, CC BY-SA

Inhabitants of the ancient city-states of the Middle East enjoyed a vibrant social and economic life centred on palace and temple institutions, supported by surrounding agricultural and pastoralist...

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