#Cuneiform

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

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

Just attended a fascinating webinar by @mslima glad to see some cuneiform mentioned alongside the enigmatic spanish theologian Ramon Llull, the history of data visualization is (very) long and fascinating!

Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid

I’m officially on leave y’all. Fear not — I’ll still spam your TLs with cuneiform threads, but since I’ll be slower at everything, I wanted to share the accounts of

Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid

As we begin to bid farewell to NEOWISE, I want to take a moment to remember the comets that found their way into cuneiform tablets thousands of years ago, and

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

Chasing Aphrodite

ChasingAphrodit

The DOJ seeks to forfeit the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet, a cuneiform tablet purchased by the Hobby Lobby for the Museum of the Bible. DOJ says tablet "originated in the area

I got a screenshot of a deleted tweet before it was cleared from my cache. They took it back, so I've protected their identity.If this sounds like something you've been

I completely agree with Martin Schøyen (and others): anything written by hand is a manuscript, regardless of the medium. So all cuneiform tablets, all ostraca, all Mayan codex vases, all

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

Andrew A.N. Deloucas

A couple weeks ago, @3d_historian approached me with a great research question: what are the colors for the iconographic sun disk of Shamash? A fun, introductory thread on the Sun

Why is the 13th zodiac sign a perennial mystery? I thought it'd be fun to do a thread on the history of the zodiac and how we actually know where

Okay so the site of kamid El loz is richer than I thought I'm going to [briefly] talk about the bronze age only because it deserves its own thread. The

This is a Sabean plaque from Yemen, but the letter forms are more rigidly geometric than usually seen, and so at first glance I'd say this is likely a modern

oldeuropeanculture

Thread: Here's an interesting cylinder seal impression, about which I only know that it is from the first half of the first millennium BC and that it is currently in

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