#Nippur 2026 is over. We squeezed out ten days of excavation, but global events took over. Now on the fourth day of our extended trip back home and we are actually further from Chicago than we were on site. 🏺

#Nippur day off means a walk round the site, including inspection of the ziggurat of Enlil. Erosion is worsening with climate change and we hope to gain funding to restore and conserve it soon. 🏺

Back to work at #Nippur #Mesopotamia. We are continuing research on the southern urban edge, examining variations in occupation density and diversity from 3rd to 1st mill BCE. @ISAC_UChicago 🏺

#Nippur 2026 at last. #Mesopotamia 🏺

MEZOPOTAMYA UYGARLIKLARINDA KEDİLER youtu.be/ipRtFk6JNso

#domestication #humananimalrelations #ancientdailylife #granaries #grainstorage #rodentcontrol #fertilecrescent #uruk #ur #nippur #nineveh #babylongate #etemenanki #ziggurat #mezopotamya #sümer #akad #babil #tarih #arkeoloji #kedi #mirkca

MEZOPOTAMYA UYGARLIKLARINDA KEDİLER youtu.be/ipRtFk6JNso

#ancientcats #felinehistory #wildcat #domestication #humananimalrelations #dailylifeinantiquity #ancientdailylife #granaries #grainstorage #rodentcontrol #fertilecrescent #uruk #ur #nippur #nineveh #babylongate #etemenanki #ziggurat

Archaeologists ignored this 3,500-year-old tablet for 70 years, calling it "inaccurate."

1970s aerial photos proved them wrong, it’s actually a 90% precise map of Nippur and history's first known urban blueprint.

#TheLolgic #babylon #mesopotamia #nippur #Pennsylvania #archaeology

An #engraved clay #map from the #Kassite period of #Babylonian #history shows walls and buildings in the holy #city of #nippur

Nippur de Lagash, creado por Robin Wood y L. Olivera en 1967 para Editorial Columba.
Nippur of Lagash, created by Robin Wood & L. Olivera in 1967 for Editorial Columba.
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Editio princeps d'un text del periode predinàstic IIIb de #Sumer #Nippur #Enlil #Iškur #Iraq

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Episode list - Thin End of the Wedge COMING SOON! Tina Greenfield — zooarchaeology Augusta McMahon — Chicago excavations at Nippur The Lagash Archaeological Project — fieldwork at Lagash Jana Mynářová — cuneiform in Egypt Christina Tsoup...

So nice to chat to @jonjtaylor.bsky.social about our 2025 #Nippur excavations. Check out Episode 77! www.wedgepod.org/episode-list/

More archaeology of archaeology. ‘His Majesty’ [#NotMyKing either] in this case was George VI. #Nippur #PostExcavation 🏺

The archaeology of archaeology. #Nippur 🏺

Another #Nippur fieldwork season done, back to teaching on Tuesday (Assyrian Empire!). I thought I would never put together a team as good as the Brak team was, but this Nippur team is amazing. V proud of the work we did. Until next year. 🏺

Clearly I made an important point here about something on the ground. #Nippur 🏺

Nippur & Kish teams together in the Kish dig house garden.

Members of the Nippur & Kish teams sat around a table in the Kish dig house garden, listening to a talk about the Kish project

Nippur team on a tour of the site

Nippur & Kish teams eating lunch together in the Kish dig house garden on a sunny day. They are sat around the edge of a long mat with food laid out in the middle.

…and #Kish, where we caught up with the team from the University of Freiburg archaeological project at Kish. Very lucky to be given a sneak peek at the mag results and a tour of the site by Dr Ivana Puljiz, and a lovely lunch together in the garden! #Nippur

Made the absolute most of our days off from excavation at #Nippur, visiting other important sites that many of the team hadn’t seen yet - like #Babylon…

Scenes from a day trip to Baghdad to start the process of requesting sample export permission. #Nippur 🏺

From Day 1 at #Nippur we have had a small mouse problem. We have owls in the house, and I hoped the cycle of life would sort that out. No luck. Enter Yen, who refuses to chase mice but whose majestic presence may have solved the issue. 🏺 #ArchaeologyCats

Sometimes the potters of #Nippur just phoned it in. (Thanks @antiquityj.bsky.social for the swag.) 🏺

Beautiful sunset over the sherd dump at #Nippur.

Even though we are excavating in the Bronze and Iron Ages, it seems lithic technology was still alive and well at #Nippur (might also be prehistoric upchurn). 🏺

We have definitely shifted some soil this season: multiple stacked versions of the city wall and the most massive 1st mill BCE house that seems to go on forever. #Nippur 🏺

At #Nippur, we’re finding the breakage pattern on our 1st mill (top) and 3rd mill (centre and bottom) male figurines is the same. Weak points or persistence of use? 🏺

So proud to be here at #Nippur with so many brilliant women! 💪 #InternationalWomensDay

In our ongoing experiment in creating a hollow way at #Nippur, the recent rains show how and why hollow ways are widened. We’ve veered to each side of our path (mostly to the left) to avoid a very soggy patch. 🏺

At #Nippur, every day is #InternationalWomensDay for our strong women-dominant team. 🏺

High tech innovation for rainy days on OCHRE… #Nippur

The rain meant we struggled all day with mud on the #Nippur excavations. But haircuts for the team in the evening! This is the 1st of 4. The many things a field director has to do… 🏺

gluing pottery

drawing pottery

Rain as predicted at #Nippur means Mud and a shift from excavation to pottery reconstruction and illustration. #Tuppi generally avoids glue on principle but offers a morale boost. 🏺