#Babylonia

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

University of Helsinki's ‘Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions’ celebrates a new book publishing al-Yahudu tablets -- ignoring that they were likely looted & smuggled out of wartime Iraq (in

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Droning/Probocysis The Reptilian method of infiltrating a humanThey only have one chance at this Their probocysis rod enters through the retina into the brain then taking over their consciousness and

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"The earliest evidence of the entrance of Persian words into the language of the Israelites is found in the Bible. The post-exilic portions, Hebrew as well as Aramaic, contain besides

thread of middle eastern inventions because im sick of hearing about europeans all the time: coffee - 11th century yemen and ethiopia:the effects of coffee beans were first discovered by

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

nini 》@bearlimbo & ACNH!

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We are starting the achilles and merlin funds thread again We still broke I still havent finished all the free quest for babylonia lol Still lazy I did some

thread about the inventions created by Iraq/is Hydraulic Engineering: the Sumerian’s figured out how to and channel the overflowing of the Euphrates & Tigris rivers & the rich stilt

its 2:30 am but i finished a rlly tough work so im gonna reward myself by watching the first ep of babylonia...it's monday already so!(i dont have class cause half

Takshashila : The World’s first known University. About 2,800 years ago, there existed a giant University at Takshashila, in the north-western region of Bharat (in today’s Pakistan).According to the Ramayana,

This is among the weirdest & scariest stuff I've read. A 3500-years-old exorcism ritual from Babylonia (from W Faber’s essay, How to Marry a Disease: Epidemics, Contagion, and a Magic

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1897 Short Studies in the Science of Comparative Religions, Embracing All the Religions of #Asia by JGR Forlonghttps://archive.org/details/shortstudiesins00forl/page/n3/mode/2up 1897https://archive.org/details/shortstudiesins00forl/page/n17/mode/2upp

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

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I've got a fun thread today for those of you who, like me, enjoy learning about the history & mythology behind your favorite Fate characters. It's episodes of @SpiritsPodcast, my

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

Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid

In 235 BCE, a boy named Aristocrates was born, and someone made predictions about his life based on where the sun, moon, and planets were in the sky.“Venus was in