#Ashurbanipal

So in some minor exciting news, I think I figured out how Neo-Assyrian women's shoes worked. A short thread. 1/9 I've been needing to scratch my #reenactment itch, and ages
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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
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Thank you so much to the incredible @gregjenner and his team for having me on "You're Dead to Me" and to @kaekurd for being so hilarious and bringing Gilgamesh the
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Carl Sagan was a brilliant astronomer, author, and professor.He's well known for being the presenter of the popular PBS series "Cosmos."Here are some of my favorite thoughts on books from
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Brilliant new resource for the field that might also be fun to peruse.These administrative records from Neo-Assyrian palaces, forts, private archives, and elsewhere paint a detailed picture of what it
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So yesterday I introduced all of you to my dissertation research.I ended on a cliffhanger with a promise to continue today, so here we go!(Here's yesterday's thread: https://twitter.com/cwjones89/status/1275412504219435008?s=20) To
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conservators are an essential part of museum life. They ensure that objects are preserved in as close to original condition as possible for future generations. You rarely see a conservator
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“At night I will stay awake and guard you; in the daytime I will give you milk,” said the goddess Mullissu to Ashurbanipal when he was still crown prince. But
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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
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Today I am going to take you down a little wormhole:Cuneiform tablets made out of materials other than clay.In special circumstances, tablets could be made from minerals like lapis lazuli
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تسلسل زمني لذكر العرب منذ القرن التاسع ق.م 1.سنة 853 ق.م : جندبو العربي انضم لحلف معادي للاشوريين في معركة قرقر (وسط سوريا الحالية) 2.بين
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