#Elamite

Sāmapriya Vasu | Šamoprio Boš(u)

samopriya

Elamite word of the day!Achæmenid #Elamite 𒁇𒋼𒌨 bar-te-taš ('storage facility for (royal??) commodities') — loan from (late) Old Persian *𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘥ē𝘥𝘢 with -š suffixed as is often seen in nominal loans

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

Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid

Moudhy

Have you already taught yourself to churn butter and perfected homemade sourdough? Maybe it’s time to move on to 4,000-year-old recipes from Babylonia.Short thread of stews recorded on a cuneiform

Christopher W. Jones

cwjones89

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

Paul Cooper

PaulMMCooper

A thread on the maps and cartography of ancient Mesopotamia: how the people of Babylon & Assyria made maps, what they used them for, and how they imagined the shape

Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid

Moudhy

“Will there be a vaccine in 2020?” is a question I wish I could have asked an ancient Babylonian or Assyrian seer in March to assuage anxiety, manage expectations, or

T. Benjamin

1FreeInhabitant

Trying to make sense of the fact that Jacob's sons were essentially rich kids of the Pharaoh's Vizier that went on to settle the known world.Not known then, mind you...

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