Louvre traces Mesopotamian water myths in new exhibition

The Louvre Museum in Paris presents 'L'Eau primordiale - Leçons de mésopotamie', an exhibition exploring the divine and human history of water in Mesopotamia. Featuring around one hundred Mesopotamian works displayed in a dedicated room and throughout the Oriental Antiquities galleries, the show reconstructs the fluvial thought that shaped ancient imaginations. It traces the myth of the Flood to a cuneiform clay tablet predating the Bible by several centuries, highlights irrigation as a Sumerian invention, and documents early water conflicts through administrative clay archives. The exhibition moves from divine water (gods and myths) to human water (canals and dams), ending with threatened water that sparked early climate concerns. Runs until March 15, 2027.