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CALL FOR PAPERS:
Looking Beyond the Text: Scribal Practices in Ancient Egypt
May 17–19, 2023, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Submit abstracts here (forms.gle/SGGRFsSKWJNesZ) by October 14
More info in the thread! 🧵
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Check out this recent article we wrote from the DRH about pedagogical applications.
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Members of our project led by @A_J_Danielson recently published an open-access article in @Religions_MDPI on using the DRH in the classroom: what types of questions work well, how to interrogate the results, and suggestions for further discussion.
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One week later, boat is mostly finished. The workshop was a ton of fun, and I'm very impressed with the design and kit from @clcboats
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One week later, boat is mostly finished. The workshop was a ton of fun, and I'm very impressed with the design and kit from
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Brb building a boat this week...
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Meet your family on this wonderful tour:
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A hierarchy of alienness: Pictures of animals from least to most related to you.
Least-related animal: Sponges. You and sponges are both animals. That's basically all you've got in common.
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One final point, there are no diagrams (yet) of any mathematical astronomical procedures or data... this is important because it shows that cuneiform astronomers were adept at working with long lists of numbers and didn't need diagrams to visualize or summarize their data.
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Not surprisingly, most of the diagrams are circular, some even have concepts that modern astrologers would recognize, like the system of trines present in this diagram:
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This is important because cuneiform astral science has a large role to play the wider history of astronomy, hopefully this article will help scholars of later periods access the history of scholarship on cuneiform diagrams.
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These diagrams are pretty esoteric, both in their ancient context, and in modern scholarship. Not many people work on them, and they're scattered in different publications. In this article I try to bring them all together to offer a comprehensive summary...
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Ever wondered what cuneiform astral diagrams look like (of course you did!)... I just published the first overview of the corpus in the Journal for the History of Astronomy (open-access too!): doi.org/10.1177/002182
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To recap, Trump couldn’t decide whether to endorse Eric Greitens or Eric Schmitt in the Missouri Senate race, so he just endorses “ERIC” the night before the election. Now both are graciously thanking him for his sincere support.
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Question for twitter: Why hasn't there been a single new reservoir built for over 30 years in the UK?
We used to build loads:
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#water #watershortage #drought #privatisation
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This is the coolest use of DALL•E 2 I've seen... Keep scrolling down the thread for more cards.
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THREAD: The evolution of Pokémon cards through history, as generated by DALL·E 2
For starters, here’s what DALL·E 2 thinks 21st century Pokémon cards look like, using prompts like “A Pokémon card from 2001”
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If, for instance, we instead took kinship systems, ecological resilience + expert wood carving as measures of “complexity” I suspect the Indigenous islanders of Ambrym would come out somewhere near the top. Basic value judgements are at the core of all “complexity” studies.
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Just came across this project, might be of interest to those who use drones in archaeology: opendronemap.org
Free and open-source tools are always a great alternative for sustainable and accessible research.
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Great article on the evangelical mind...
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Who exactly are these evangelicals who keep racking up so many wins at everyone else's expense? My insider's account has been de-paywalled by n+1:
nplusonemag.com/issue-35/polit
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The democrats will get my money again when abortion access funds don't need it anymore...
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In 612 BCE, the Assyrian empire fell to an army of Babylonians and Medes. An unnerving letter from the Assyrian outpost of Tušhan (Ziyaret Tepe in SE Turkey) describes the collapse of the military and administration. "Death will come out of it! No one [will escape]. I am done!"
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Congrats to Ryan Schroeder on his new JSOT article! “Eglon’s Fat and Ehud’s Oracle: A Reconsideration of Humour in Judges 3.12–30” draws on humour theory and the W. Asian oracular context to offer new windows into this troubling story.
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To study ancient history, you must read a lot. You have to keep up with new studies and discoveries published by colleagues and working professionals, and you're also expected to read publications from 50-100 years ago in equal measure.
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugaritic bounty hunters.
Over 3000 years ago, somewhere not too far from the city of Ugarit (on the coast of modern-day Syria), some bandits rustled a herd of oxen...
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A simpler way to put it. There needs to be serious consideration of how to defuse this crisis - which is also a crisis not just in the legitimacy of our institutions but in the right of Dem voters in this country to get anything they vote for, or anything their voters need
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Our current predicament is unsustainable: you can't have a minority of the country telling the majority how to act and have that same minority deny the majority the ability to change the results through elections. This behavior will precipitate/exacerbate a Legitimation Crisis.
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My plan is essentially to stop posting depressing stuff for a little while, but I just desperately need people and the party to realize how senseless the idea that we are going to vote our way out of this is. Voting can help people in purple states that aren't too gerrymandered
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Just a reminder: because of non-proportional representation and demographics: in order to break the filibuster and overcome the R+6-7 bias in the Senate, Democrats would need to win 3 straight elections by 19 points to make abortion legal nationally. 1/n
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We often observe clay tablets as sterile objects, but they were handled by real people who interacted with them in ways that preserve human emotions, writes a great thread on bite marks, another example is a tablet clearly crushed by a young student (in frustration?)
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One of my favorite objects from ancient Iraq: an Old Babylonian (c. 1800 BC) tablet with a bite mark. It’s a school exercise, of a basic kind that students would be set in the first years of their education. When this student had finished their homework, they took a bite of it.
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Abortion care is a fundamental human right and we must legislate like it.
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In my opinion the long game for the Dems needs to be figuring out how to undo the rural slant of our national institutions and building a constituency for that. Not BECAUSE it's rural, not bc rural ppl are worse or better, more or less enlightened. Bc in the urban 21st century -
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Good thread:
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The leaked Supreme Court abortion decision is founded not on precedent nor the law nor any concept of justice but rather on corruption & the flagrant, abuse of power. It would not happen but for serial acts of political violence against the intent & spirit of the Constitution.
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The solutions cannot just be "wish you had voted" or get out and vote next time, the game is stacked against the Democratic majority in the US:
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Before anything can happen, people need to grapple with the actual dysfunction of the American gov and they need to do it now. If you're talking about Jill Stein rn, yo need to grow up. Clinton got nearly 3 mil more votes in that election already -
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Everyone saw this coming a long way off... but it's impacts are so far reaching both for the bodily autonomy of people who can get pregnant and for our democracy and freedoms in general, we need radical action now!
theguardian.com/commentisfree/
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Hi #ClassicsTwitter + #AncientMedTwitter, I just got word that we can now accommodate a few more funded MA students in our fall cohort at Texas Tech. Please spread the word and send your students my way for more info!
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An Assyrian incantation against flatulence, better known as “Ode to a Fart.” As Benjamin Foster notes, “This may be one of the few apotheoses of flatulence in world literature.”
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"Unlike Enkidu, we still have the chance to change course and prevent a complete devastation of the global forest, but only if we can truthfully reflect on the harm we cause to earth." Great writing from on Gilgamesh and climate change
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Celebrating #earthday, I have an essay out today with @MarginaliaROB on Gilgamesh and climate change.
As Gilgamesh reminds us, we must all learn to zigzag between scales, connecting global changes with the local level on which we can make a difference.
themarginaliareview.com/climate-change
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Declassified #HEXAGON spy satellite photos show ancient sites, landscapes, and heritage preservation in the Middle East. My article with Mack FitzPatrick and is now in FirstView. Green #OpenAccess interactive StoryMap here:
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Oh boy... This is scary
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Get your good Akkadian pedagogy right here in this fresh thread from
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Today, my AKKAD AB students and I are reading UET 6, 402, a literary account of vengeance. The tablet records the speech of Kuzullum, a man wronged by Elali while under oath. Now, he asks for Elali to lose his right to heirship, be made poor, and become infected with leprosy.
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This is all religion is
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