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congratulations Helene! Always a pleasure to write with you and read your work 🥰

yes, great data but all these years later, I'm surprised we still have no maps, they would be so useful at least for teaching 😔

Folks, does anybody know of a map showing where #cuneiform collections are in museums across the world, similar to @sarabmohr.bsky.social 's map for US colleges and unis, but for museums worldwide? #assyriology

First time I see an article retracted for (likely) AI hallucinations.

N.B., the authors have PhD´s but don´t seem affiliated with a university.

i haven't been posting because i'm writing Gejou's biography, and what feels like a ton of articles, which is making me doubt i can ever write his or any biography, or write at all, and all i do is waver between despair and amusement at my abysmal career choices.

who else writes like this?

A head, a body, and two antiquities dealers...

Have you ever come across this Gudea statue? It's in the Louvre Abu Dhabi now, but until last year it had been in the Louvre Paris since 1953. HOW did get there though?

Let me tell you the story 🕵️‍♀️🔎👇
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Congratulations!!

A banner that reads OLDER LGBT SCIENCE FICTION: A DATABASE in big letters, and tinyurl.com/oldgaySF in smaller print below. The background is an orange-tinted retro-looking photo of a row of radio telescopes.

I'd like to share with y'all a project I've poured my heart and soul into over the last couple of years: a database cataloguing every single older (pre-21st century) LGBT science fiction book I've managed to track down - currently just over 200 titles 🚀

LINK: tinyurl.com/oldgaySF

Laundering looted antiquities through the use of an old collection? Forged provenance documentation? I investigate the case of Cumberland Clark, a forgotten early 20th-century collector who has become relevant again
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Printed reproduction of a wall panel detail. Panel discovered at Nimrud, Iraq. Shows a hand holding a basket inscribed with a cuneiform text. Background is beige, hand & basket are peach in colour.

Back of the book cover showing the printed impression of cuneiform signs, deep enough to feel almost every sign individually.

Congratulations on the publication of The Library of Ancient Wisdom @lswisnom.bsky.social 🥳 currently reading & loving it.

Btw, I've not come across such a cover before 😍: the cuneiform signs are deeply impressed in the paper & almost all individually so - it's like stroking a tablet's surface ❤️

Anyone have the Sotheby's, New York, June 14, 2000 antiquities catalogue? I need a photo of lot 87 and its details.

Happy Publication Day to me! 🎉😱🥹🧿

Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History is officially out!

It’s a history of the region through objects found in an ancient museum in Princess Ennigaldi-Nanna’s palace, and I hope you all like it 💛 lnk.to/BetweenTwoRi...

Parthian hedgehog from Nippur. Top 10 Mesopotamian artifact list. 🏺

Oathbreakers The authors of The Bright Ages return with a real-life Game of Thrones—the story of the Carolingian Civil War, a bloody, protracted battle pitting brother against brother, father against son, that wou...

"Like all empires, this one rested on a foundation of lies." #Oathbreakers, out from @harpercollins.bsky.social on 12/10. The story of how Charlemagne's grandsons fought a brutal civil war and shattered the Frankish Empire.

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New Akkadian dictionary project at Leipzig: www.saw-leipzig.de/de/presse/pr...

Beige-coloured Cuneiform tablet with drawing of a seven-sided star in the top left and a table below it across the rest of the tablet. Reverse of the tablet is damaged and shows several cracks and spots.

Close-up of the seven-sided star with cuneiform signs at its points and part of the table below on a beige-coloured cuneiform tablet

It looks like an ancient Excel spreadsheet with a doodle. But ~2,500 years ago, someone made a diagram of a 7-pointed star, and a table that seems to give instructions for how to make that diagram.

The seven points of the star are labeled with the names for the strings of a Mesopotamian harp.

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Call for papers: “’Degenerate’ art. A French/German cross-history“ Call for papers for the international colloquium on “’Degenerate’ art. A French/German cross-history“ in Paris on March 27 and 28, 2025.

Call for papers for the colloquium “’Degenerate’ art. A French/German cross-history“. Deadline for submissions is November 30, 2024: kulturgutverluste.de/termine/call... #provenanceresearch

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Tag yourselves. I'm "Now, that's Colonialism!" #atchaeosky

Interested in doing research in Global Environmental History and the Environmental Humanities in Germany?

I am scouting!

Offering an up to 2 year research fellowship with the Humboldt Foundation. Deadline, December 13.
www.uni-augsburg.de/de/fakultaet...

Come to a talk I'm giving on Ethiopia's Prince Alemayehu in London on Sun, Dec. 15.

There will be "revelations" - all the things I have learned since my book "The Prince and the Plunder" came out.

Come in person www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-prince... or online www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1083157466...

Ancient Babylonians kept copious records of astronomical phenomena on clay tablets that we call Astronomical Diaries.

In 164 BCE, they saw Halley’s Comet hover softly in the night sky, and recorded it in cuneiform on clay www.ebl.lmu.de/fragmentariu...

yes, it was jarring, but for me not because Everett used it, it was bc the insane cruelty of white americans was palpable via this word. But I loved this book, I love Everett's sense of humour, the structure & pace of his novels, and his sense of justice :)

thank you :) the white house was possibly his family's, I hope one day I'll find traces of him in Iraqi archives 🤞🏼

he seems to have left for Baghdad in May 1921, and begins to mention tablets from Larsa to his clients from October, so that's perhaps when the Louvre was offered tablets from this site

fun fact: Gejou met Gertrude Bell in Aug 1921 👇

the text comes from Larsa, modern Senkereh (Gejou sold tablets from this site b/w 1901 & 1925 at least)

i know Gejou was in Baghdad in 1922 b/c he wrote to the BM from this address 'Souk-el-Ghazel 21/180' -I was lucky to visit this street in June, see photo- to offer tablets from Larsa for sale

Thank you Andrew 🙏

this amusing text was purchased by the Louvre from my old friend Ibrahim in 1922 collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...

the Louvre hasn't preserved their correspondence w/ Gejou in 1922 (or for most years b/w 1899-1937 🤡)

but i know that Gejou was in Baghdad in early 1922 🕵️‍♀️

as someone who struggles to memorize dates, these chronologies have always been torture 😭 but the story of our reliance on Babylonian astronomical records is fascinating, the impact of cuneiform texts will always blow my mind

Unfortunately, TCL 18, 111 (housed at the Louvre) is a tablet purchased from the famed antiquities dealer Elias Ibrahim Géjou. Thankfully, we have a world expert on Géjou here, @tamacahut.bsky.social.

She's been interviewed by @jonjtaylor.bsky.social, here:
www.buzzsprout.com/1338718/epis...