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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Beautiful sculptures of two leaders from ancient Iraq.Gudea ruled a city called Lagash and its surrounds, and Ur-Nammu founded the short-lived but epically documented Third Dynasty of Ur. Their effigies