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At the same time, it highlighted the different roles of women reflected in Sumerian and Akkadian material and visual culture. Exhibits on ancient individuals and individual stories have the potential to change biased historical narratives. By reviewing the curatorial practices of the exhibit, this paper examines the role of <em>She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia<\/em> in challenging the traditional ancient western Asian canon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few ancient Mesopotamian names live in the public memory, even fewer are of women. She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia, ca. 3400&ndash;2000 B.C. at the Morgan Library and Museum, New York, changed that. The exhibition, which was featured on many popular platforms and publications from the New York Times to Hyperallergic, celebrated Enheduanna, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[907],"tags":[46,60],"issues":[798],"region":[895],"class_list":["post-1887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-museum-review","tag-gender","tag-museologymuseumstudies","issues-798","region-near-east-mesopotamia"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Enheduanna and Her World: Individual Women in Ancient Western Asia | April 2024 (128.2) | American Journal of Archaeology<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ajaonline.org\/museum-review\/4785\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Enheduanna and Her World: Individual Women in Ancient Western Asia | April 2024 (128.2) | American Journal of Archaeology\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Few ancient Mesopotamian names live in the public memory, even fewer are of women. 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