#Mesopotamian

Planets in Quarantine (BLM • ACAB) 🖤

Weird_Astrology

I have a question for ppl who know a lot about Mesopotamian astrology/history: what was "the Great Star"? Was it a star? Venus?I'm interested because of this dream where king

Okay, #WritingCommunity twitter, I need help. I'm releasing the first in a series soon, a Mesopotamian fantasy story about a poor-gravedigger-turned-queen-of-the-underworld. I'd planned to call it Queen of Irkalla, but

Ancient Egyptian jewelry and its connection towards ancient Afghanistan.In ancient Egypt, lapis lazuli was a favorite stone for royal amulets and ornaments.Lapis lazuli has been mined in what is today

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( tw eyes ) I'm in art history class rn and am i the only one who finds Mesopotamian art like....actually terrifying hm this doesnt have too too many retweets

The Mythology Manifest

TheMythologyMa1

For #MythologyMonday @MythologyMonday asked for facts or beings related to death in #mythology so here is a thread of beings related to death.#KeepingClassicsalive 1/8 1. #Thanatos the #God of death

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

Rezvani | not flinching while being flayed

1. Demystifying #EidUlFitr and Ramazan/Ramadan for the non-believers.Do you know why Christians (40 days, Lent) & Muslims (30 days, Ramazan) fast?Both these fastings are related to Theophany and have

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

Bill Sutherland

Bill_Sutherland

I blame lockdown but for some reason decided to cook Babylonian meal from the recipe tablet on the right; at 1750 BCE are the oldest recipes existing. Seemed to go

So, can we blame "inferior" and "mixed" people for creating civilisation? Is the existence of it in the first place a sign of a broken and hopeless people? Would we

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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

Pāśupatāstra

BHARATVARSH_780

Fool!This is the fact on record that #Turkey did a brutal genocide of #armenians . It is the moral & ethical responsibility of #Turkey to accept their bloody deeds &

🌾🍄Amaya: Animist Astrologer & Folk Witch 🍁🥀

I swear to all the Gods...Let’s talk about the zodiac and the ongoing myth that one is more accurate than the other.Tl;dr version: neither is accurate according to constellations alignment,

Andromeda Yelton

I have an hour or two to kill in Bozeman so I found this hole in the wall computer history museum and...wow. This is not what I expected. + Computing

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

Ancient Artefact of the Day: The Liver of PiacenzaAn Etruscan life-size model of a sheep's liver, ca. 100 BC, used in the practice of hepatoscopy (divination through the inspection of