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Archaeologist Work: CRM in BC, 🍁 Research: Ancient Southwest Asia Player/writer of TTRPGs, veteran, nerd. (he/him) Living and learning in the unceded territory of the K'ómoks First Nation. Trans Rights, BLM, MMIWG2S, Stop Asian Hate, Free Palestine
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The right is banging right along with normalizing throwing the nazi salute about. The left needs to re-normalize making nazis extremely hesitant about being open about nazi shit. "To remain neutral is to side with the oppressor." - Desmond Tutu (who I'm fairly certain would agree with the above)

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📆 Mercredi 12 mars à 17h15, (re)découvrez le documentaire « Ainsi parle Tarām-Kūbi, correspondances assyriennes » dans le cadre d'une projection-débat en présence de l'assyriologue Cécile Michel. 📍Bâtiment F, Pont de Bois, ULille 🔗 halma.univ-lille.fr/detail-event...

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Drinking straw strainer from 5th-century CE Türkiye, topped with a handy carrying ring! www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

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He's just a lil guy! 🥹

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The clock is set. Only 3,879 hours until August, when this book is released in the Americas.

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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...

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When reading the Enūma Eliš, read a tablet silently to yourself. Think about how that felt. Then, read that same tablet as though you were reciting it before an enraptured audience. It truly comes alive. I'd love to be able to memorize it verbatim and recite it with friends and a jar of good beer.

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If it looks like there are two different fonts on this clay tablet from ancient Babylon, that’s because there are. In December of 603 BCE, a young scribe named Balāṭa made a faithful copy of a far more ancient inscription of Sîn-Kashid who had ruled Uruk over 1,000 years earlier.

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Snow day! Sledding near my house in Dix Park in Raleigh, North Carolina (2 of 2)

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Not sure how I feel about Canadians' response to American expansionism being "Nationalism-Lite." We can't be trusted. It's a slippery slope from booing to hate crimes. And we're not really that far up the slope. Exhibits A & B: Anti-Asian and Anti-Indigenous hate crimes (early-1600s to present)

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Me: There! I finally have all my ducks in a row to write my abstract to present at the CAA conference in St. John's! So glad abstracts can start being submitted on Feb 28th. I'm well ahead! *whispers from off stage* Abstracts are DUE BY Feb 28th!? Aww, geez.

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🏺 Texture in this is astonishing - the irises and pupils with the lightest touched (except for a tiny white highlight) make you feel like you're looking *into* her eyes, while her pearl earrings gleam tangibly out of the 4th dimension (high res image : commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mu...

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The least believable part of D&D: When choosing watches for the night and people are like, "I'll take the third shift." Really? You'll take the 1:00-4:00am shift? Just like that? The most rat-bastard shift in history that is neither "waking up early" nor "had enough sleep". You don't even know.

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If you think America will or won't annex land over a question of "ownership," I have a Manifest Destiny I want you to look into. Also see: Trail of Tears. You know what, just look at Western Hemispheric history starting just before 1500 AD.

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This may sound like the ravings of an idiot (because they are), but it's more nefarious than that. Borders are lines on a map, i.e., not real. The thing that makes them real is a nation's ability to enforce its sovereignty up to that line. Essentially, if you can't protect it, it's up for grabs.

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Going live on YouTube in 30 minutes to talk to Dr. Amanda Podany about the lives of ordinary people in Mesopotamia! Always been curious about how people like you lived 4,000 years ago? Now's your chance to ask an expert your questions!

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Like archaeology? Listen to the New Brunswick Archaeology Podcast. #RealArchaeology rss.com/podcasts/nba...

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I loved getting to answer all sorts of questions about ancient Mesopotamia on the BBC History Extra podcast! From the basics like where it was, to science, toilets and the Flood story, we covered so much. You can listen pretty much anywhere, including here podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

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I found it! This song has been a constant ear worm for over a decade but no amount of scouring google for every word combination I could think of could recall the name of this amazing band or song. But now, Behold! the fever dream that is... Fang Island - Daisy. youtu.be/EIurAP4yHtQ?...

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Finally, an article on the decipherment of cuneiform that does justice to the many figures involved, the timeline, competition, and sheer philological grit. Fascinating and colourful synopsis of how we came to be able to read tablets from ancient Mesopotamia www.smithsonianmag.com/history/myst...

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In this ancient Assyrian letter, astronomers complain that they can’t do their jobs or teach astronomy “because of the ilku-duty”, a type of taxation in the form of labour. “we cannot keep the watch of the king, and the pupils do not learn the scribal craft” cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/33...

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For #RomanSiteSaturday let's go to a huge pile of #trash - Monte Testaccio in #Rome. A huge artificial hill located next to the Tiber River. It was made up of millions of broken amphorae (mostly oil amphorae from southern Spain) during the...🧵1/2 🏺 #AncientBluesky #archaeology

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