#Assyria

Mattison Warren

PINE CONES AND HANDBAGSThere are ancient carvings and depictions all over the world--Sumer, Assyria, Mesopotamia, New Zealand, Mesoamerica, Polynesia, and more. These deities are repeatedly holding what look like pine

I want to start a conversation about Shamanism. We hear a lot about astrology and other "otherwordly" occultism in the form of prechristian numerology (see: sumeria assyria et al) what

Christopher W. Jones

Dear Twitter, I have spent a lot of time in the past two years working on this thing called my 'dissertation.'What is Christopher doing, you may wonder? In this thread

FUN FACT THREAD: Aramaic was the first language of Christ. It is also the oldest language in the world, derived from cuneiform. Commonly referred to as the fertile crescent and

Tracing the development of the link between cultural heritage and foreign policy objectives (often euphemized as "national security") is really important, but why do these discussions always have to treat

Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid

Excited (and nervous) to give a Zoom lecture today to a 5th-grade class about astronomy in ancient Mesopotamia and its legacy! It’s impossible to talk about any aspect of scholarship

eyshe איישע

I think ppl may have a difficult time understanding why the theft of artifacts by western museums is so especially damning and heartbreaking. For that reason, I want to write

mesopotamian speech and debate club

I think ppl may have a difficult time understanding why the theft of artifacts by western museums is so especially damning and heartbreaking. For that reason, I want to write

Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid

As always, I look to my Assyriology peeps for help with this question because I perpetually forget the best intro books Can @digi_hammurabi @DrMonicaPalmero @sarabmohr @pearcele @Apkallatu @JonTaylor_BM @cwjones89 please

If you go through the history of how Jesus went from being depicted (by artists) as a short-haired, beardless man to a flowing, long-haired man with full beards, you'd know

Hands of Ishtar, a rather interesting and enigmatic Assyrian object are making the rounds on Twitter today. I wanted to show a couple cool examples of these objects from different

The Babylonian "Dialogue of Pessimism" holds a special place in my heart - it's actually the piece that inspired me to become an Assyriologist to begin with! Today I'm going

Paul 🌹📚 Cooper

A thread on illness and medicine in ancient Babylon and Assyria, including herbal remedies, marijuana, liver readings and mischievous ghosts Like many early societies, the ancient Mesopotamians regarded most illness

ariel. #SHAVUOT 🕊

“You shall tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and burn their Asherim with fire, and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods and obliterate

Exposing Some Major Messianic 'Prophecy Fulfillments' and The Sins of Jesus/Yeshua[A Thread] This will be a quite lengthy thread, focused on the fulfilments of the 'messianic prophecies' by the New

Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid

What survives of the past is things, so it's easy to forget the people behind them whose lives, loves, worries, and wants might not have been so different from ours.Thread