Co-authored research by Patrick Hunt, Stanford University, and Whitney de Luna, Stanford Hospital Liver Clinic Fig. 1 Etruscan Bronze Mirror of Chalchas the Seer Reading a Liver (Vatican: Gregorian Museum, Rome, cat # 12240) Figure 2 Sheep’s liver in clay. 14.6 cm across. Old Babylonian, circa 1900-1600 BC. 
Provenance: likely Sippar in modern southern Iraq….

Great Eleusis Frieze, Eleusis Museum, Greece, late 5th c. BCE What was the role of Triptolemos in the Eleusinian Mysteries? This question is still unanswered – and may never be answered – despite considerable attention and voluminous studies spanning many centuries. Even the earliest Patristic commentators like Clement of Alexandria, Lactantius, Macrobius and others have…