#Akkadian

Sami Jiries | سامي جِريِس

Akkadian has a verb nâkum 'to have sex with,' which is cognate to Arabic ناك nāk- 'to fuck.' I can't find any cognates in Aramaic, Ge'ez, or Hebrew, so potentially

George Heath-Whyte

The thought of having to learn hundreds of cuneiform signs can be quite off-putting for students interested in ancient Mesopotamian languages and history – but how many signs do you

my last thread now in On pic1 we see 3 Akkadian and 3words (from book on pic4, page 96).The word I will examine is KÖMÜR, meaning coalNisanyan drew attention to

Amit Schandillia

13/19Ishtar was called the Queen of Heaven and shows up on many Assyrian and Akkadian artefacts today. The following Akkadian seal, for instance, comes from 2300 BC. That's at least

mesopotamian speech and debate club

"Anum, father of heaven... in the ritual act I perform... put here truth!" As promised, here's a thread showing you all a little bit how I translate cuneiform, so you

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Not many people know this... my PhD was on the clay tablets containing the mythology from Ugarit - a late Bronze Age kingdom pretty much opposite the “finger” of Cyprus-

mesopotamian speech and debate club

Okay here goes! As promised, a thread to show you how to translate, from the original Babylonian cuneiform, a law from the Code of Hammurabi We’re going to translate together

eyshe איישע

Lots of people were sending me this, so I decided to break down the translation of this tablet, and show you one very famous complaint tablet from the Old Babylonian

Amit Schandillia

5/19By 1500 BC, the first Veda had been written. This was the first written record of a civilization's practices, both religious and otherwise. Here we find references to plenty of

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ReginaldODonog1

[THREAD]The Biblical Flat EarthNot a single passage anywhere in the Old Testament alludes to the spherical shape of the earth. There do exist some 'possible' exceptions in the 'New' Testament

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Hotep/SJW nonsense (a thread): White man disarms the #CoonChip African American man (a migrate from Judah) single-handily deciphers the origin of the cushitic-speaking Oromo people. Concludes they’re Akkadian. The hwhite

Benjamin Suchard

As my co-presenter Jorik Groen and I both sadly couldn't attend #NACAL47, @PhDniX just did us the great favour of presenting on our behalf. Here's a thread with our slides.

Amit Schandillia

[THREAD]1/19Long, long ago there was a people that lived someplace in the steppes of Eurasia who spoke a language linguists call, quite unimaginatively, the Proto-Indo-European tongue or PIE. Here, we're

A thread on the heavenly bodies of the solar system in Persian and their Zoroastrian origins Sun-Xôršîd, from Middle Persian Xwar(x)šēd, from Avestan Hvarə.xšaēta, the Yazata (divinity) of the

Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid

Welcome, new Tweeps! I know you came for the dogs, which I am totally here for, but I hope you stay for the cuneiform because the world it reveals is

nawab_safiullah

Thread: Historical names of Indus Basin/Indus Valleyi) Meluhha or Melukhkha whose meaning is "high abode" or "high country" is supposedly the first documented name of Indus Valley. (Location of foreign