#Mesopotamia

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
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Thread: Inlaid ivory panel depicting "lioness devouring a boy"... From the palace of Ashurnasirpal II, part of an almost identical pair, originally part of a piece of furniture, perhaps a
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Today I am going to tell you about a legal term from real estate transactions in the Middle East dating back 2,800 or more years.The term is bētu epšu adi
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An Ancient African Civilization existed in the Nri Kingdom of now Eastern part of Nigeria, Excavations in Igbo-Ukwu have found highly sophisticated bronze artifacts from the earliest known age of
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Pathological medical history quiz time! #pathtwitter #medicalhistory1/ During the black plague, doctors use to think it was transmitted by: 2/ Verrucous carcinoma is a variant of Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Previous
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Sorry to say but this was the expected result when you let your empire fall to the desert cult. Peaceful coexistence and secularism is a farce. Neither the people nor
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Stories of #Copts around the world never ceases to amaze me. This thread is about Latif Makram, a #Coptic man survived #Nazi concentration camp #Buchenwald https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/buchenwald Latif Tewfik Makram was
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The False Promise of Peace in the Middle East , how powers work in darkness to hinder peace and destabilize the fragile region through fighting real reformers and peace seeking
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the @britishmuseum’s been closed to visitors for 4 and a half months due to coronavirusyet the museum’s work has continued tonight is definitely good time to look back at
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1/Prophecy is 1/3 of the #BIBLICAL text. Revelation and Daniel are full of it. Let’s dive into the prophetic STATUE DREAM Daniel interpreted for King Nebuchadnezzar in chap 2, and
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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
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reading yet another book about agricultural history for research reasons the great thing about Books About Agriculture is when they're pure shit, you absolutely already know by page 3 for
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As #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek draws to a close, here is a short thread to remind us that mental health issues are ancient, and that if you suffer from them, you are not
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This is for the racists who think there were no black or non white people in Britain before the Windrush! This thread focuses mostly on black british history but also
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If you’re someone like me who sometimes has a difficult time picturing ancient history, here are some of my favorite and accurate artistic representations/photos of ancient Mesopotamia This drawing is
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(1/10) I just finished reading @StephanieKelton's #TheDeficitMyth. It's perhaps the most lucid popular exposition of #MMT theory around, a stick of dynamite in the foundations of deficit-phobia, a wake-up call
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