#Mesopotamian

Haggard Hawks 🦅

HaggardHawks

The new HH book AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 WORDS is OUT NOW!https://www.amazon.co.uk/Around-World-80-Words-Language/dp/1783964006The book tells the stories behind 80 different words and phrases whose origins lie on the world map—so

Rana 𒀭

ranaofsidon

1/ LONG ARCHEO THREAD ON MARI - Tell Hariri.After being reminded of the horrifying state of the site of Tell Hariri, ancient Mari, earlier today, I decided to dedicate a

Flint Dibble 🍖🏺📖

FlintDibble

This #archaeology thread is about #context – where we find our artifacts – and why that mattersI’ll start w/ the 1st site I ever dug at, the cave of Fontéchevade

Sally

SallyCLST6

#CLST5 #Ethics For this #CYO4, I listened to Episode 88 of The Dirt Podcast titled Art Crimes, presented by Anna Goldfield and Amber Zambelli, which discusses heists, forgeries, and other

Amit Schandillia

Schandillia

[THREAD: ZERO]1/51Once upon a time in the land of Mesopotamia, there lived a people who engaged in commerce, had a system of weights and measures, paid in currency, and most

YodaaClub

YodaaClub

Humans are the only creatures that use money. Animals, birds, insects, fishes, and plants exist together in the world without it.Yet, while every human spends money, very few *understand* it.

Yazidi الايزيدية

Ezidi2

Yazidi - Yezidi - Ezidi Religion, Culture, History ...A threadYazidism is one of the most ancient surviving religions in the world and the Yazidi people are one of the most

visa is AFK working on @introspectVV

visakanv

#nowreading Debt, by David Graeber David’s teaches anthropology at LSE. He’s written other books like “Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value”, “Fragments of an Anarhist Anthropology” and “Lost People: Magic

Huzaifa.

MHuzaifaNizam

Lesser Known Fact: Did you know that Peshawar’s ancient name actually was city of flowers, that Sialkot is named after a Punjabi folk hero, that Gwadar means door of the

Omer Sayadi

MENAsymbolism

These Moroccan coins feature the so-called Seal of Solomon, often depicted as a hexagram, similar to the Star of David. The coins are dated respectively 1271 A.H. (1855) and 1290

AL-IRAQI - العراقي 🇮🇶

IbnAlRafidayn

Thread documenting Iraqi culture by me: https://twitter.com/MidEastWitness/status/1082518665520664576 https://twitter.com/MidEastWitness/status/1108056769501319168 https://twitter.com/MidEastWitness/status/1105162704619216899 https://twitte

Sarah Creed

ItsSarahCreed

OKKKKKK so my museum brain is slowly mulching whilst on furlough so I have decided that I am going to do a post each day analysing EVERY place setting on

oldeuropeanculture

serbiaireland

Thread (longish but hopefully interesting): While reading about the sudden collapse of the Balkan Neolithic cultures, like Vinča culture (pic) at the end of the 5th mill BC, I came

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...

Lady_Miss_M

Lady_Miss_M

Most people following Q and the great awakening are familiar with this structure: I have been extremely confounded by this horrid building, for reasons that are probably obvious to anybody

Kenan Sharpe

kenan_sharpe

2020 BEST OF TURKISH MUSIC [thread]The year is almost over. The music mags have given their top 100s, we had #SpotifyWrapped , now it's time for my little round-up. It's

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