Our NINO Visiting Research Fellow Dr. Michela Piccin will be giving a lecture on nature’s sublime power in Mesopotamian texts at the VU on the 20th of March. For further information and registration, see the poster.
#ninoleiden #VUAmsterdam #assyriology
🏺📝Job vacancy (100%, 1 year) in #Assyriology in the MagEIA research group. Task: Research on magical ritual texts for the royal person in Mesopotamia in the 1st millennium BC. Applications until 31 March 2026. #academic #job
The Nimrud Letters offer a window into imperial policy, warfare, deportations, and administration under Tiglath-Pileser III and Sargon II. They show the Assyrian world behind biblical accounts of Israel and Judah.
#Assyriology #AncientNearEast #BiblicalHistory
Try the Arabic interface: cdli.earth/ar
Funded by BISI, the General Fund for Assyriology (Wolfson College, Oxford), Meditor Trust & the CDLI community.
#CDLI #Assyriology #Iraq #DigitalHeritage
MEZOPOTAMYA UYGARLIKLARINDA KEDİLER youtu.be/ipRtFk6JNso
#neareasternarchaeology #ancienthistory #ancientcivilizations #bronzeage #ironage #cuneiform #cuneiformtablets #claytablets #sumeriantablets #akkadianlanguage #assyriology #ancienttexts #omentexts #mesopotamianomens #shummaalu #divination
MEZOPOTAMYA UYGARLIKLARINDA KEDİLER youtu.be/ipRtFk6JNso
#neareasternarchaeology #ancienthistory #ancientcivilizations #bronzeage #ironage #cuneiform #cuneiformtablets #claytablets #sumeriantablets #akkadianlanguage #assyriology #ancienttexts #omentexts #mesopotamianomens
"Memorization and Scholarship in Mesopotamia in the First Millennium BCE", by Uri Gabbay, is available #openaccess from @degruyterbrill.bsky.social! The chapter come from our recent publication, "On Scribes and Scholars". www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... #MesopotamianHistory #Assyriology
Clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia show that some patients were prescribed a visit to a god before treatment began. Ear and spleen ailments reveal how medicine, ritual, and prognosis intertwined. #Archaeology #AncientMedicine #Anthropology #Assyriology www.anthropology.net/p/when-heali...
Regarding philologist, #Assyriologist, & British Museum curator Irving Finkel being "a contributor to Ancient Aliens". . .
#AncientAliens #Anunnaki #Assyriologists #Assyriology #BritishMuseum #IrvingFinkel #Philology #Politesse #PeopleWhoAreInsane #FuckingLunatics
www.youtube.com/shorts/VmxDf...
A 3,000-year-old Babylonian hymn has been reconstructed with AI, revealing a vivid portrait of the city’s beauty, women priests, and civic ideals once copied by schoolchildren. A forgotten voice rises again. #Assyriology #AncientHistory #Archaeology #AI www.anthropology.net/p/a-city-rea...
Professor Horowitz @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social was delighted with his #Festschrift, which honours his research across #Assyriology, Mesopotamian history, & much more. The book is now in print. You can save 40% on the hardback & 50% on the eBook here... www.gorgiaspress.com/on-scribes-a... #newbook
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
Coming very, very soon... Pre-order and save 40%! www.gorgiaspress.com/on-scribes-a...
#newbook #Assyriology #mesopotamia
My colleague @panktroels.bsky.social is currently looking for a postdoc to work with him on his new project "Understanding Epidemics in Ancient Mesopotamia". Please spread the word!
employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...
#archaeology #assyriology #Mesopotamia
We're delighted to announce that this new book, celebrating the work of Prof. Wayne Horowitz, is coming soon! Find out more and save 20% here www.gorgiaspress.com/on-scribes-a... #Assyriology #comingsoon #celebration
An ED IIIb tablet from Nippur preserves a fragmentary Sumerian myth of the storm god Iškur’s captivity and rescue by a fox. Though incomplete, recurring motifs offer insight into the longue durée of Mesopotamian myth. #Assyriology #Cuneiform #AncientLiterature
Talking to #Assyriologist Stephanie Dalley about discovering the #HangingGardens in #Assyrian reliefs.
Digging Up The Past - Episode 17: The Might and Influence of the Neo-Assyrians
More at DiggingUpThePast.com.
#ancient #history #archaeology #assyriology #stephaniedalley #mesopotamia #babylon
A 4,400-year-old Sumerian tablet from Nippur tells of a storm god trapped in the underworld, a divine assembly in crisis, and a fox who volunteers to save the day. A myth of drought, cunning, and divine absence. #Mesopotamia #Sumer #Assyriology #Archaeology
In the course of a collaboration with the University of Baghdad, LMU’s Enrique Jiménez has rediscovered a text that had been lost for a thousand years.
#assyriology
Read more on ClassiCult: www.classicult.it/en/hymn-to-b...
Are you curious about ancient #Assyrian or #Mesopotamian religions? Thanks to the Assyrian Cultural Foundation's Assyrian Renaissance lecture series, you can check out my thoughts on the topic here: youtu.be/vC9AbeNEU1I?... #Assyriology #Ancient #History
In Nineveh’s North Palace, archaeologists uncovered a monumental 12-ton relief of Ashurbanipal flanked by deities—a rare Assyrian throne-room scene. Forgotten by 19th-c. digs, it lay buried for millennia.
#Assyriology #NearEastStudies #Archaeology #Nineveh #Ashurbanipal
Dear friends and colleagues, the academic program of the 70th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (Prague, July 7-11) is now available online at rai70.ff.cuni.cz/program.php Registration to attend is still open! #70RAIPrague #Assyriology @FF_CUNI @Orientalniustav @iaassyriology.bsky.social
Dear friends and colleagues, the academic program of the 70th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (Prague, July 7-11) is now available online at rai70.ff.cuni.cz/program.php Registration to attend is still open! #70RAIPrague #Assyriology @FF_CUNI @Orientalniustav
👋Are you into #cuneiform and #assyriology 🏺? We are looking for a new colleague to join us @uni-wuerzburg.de !
More infos: www.uni-wuerzburg.de/karriere/sin...
Deadline to apply: 11 May 2025.
Irving Finkel is one of my favourite nutjobs.
#Assyriology #cuneiform
Re: IAA Prize for the Best Article of an Early Career Scholar. Thank you to all the authors who submitted to us! Our committee now has a few evenings to study everything carefully—choosing a winner won’t be easy! 🤩 #Assyriology #MesopotamianArchaeology
Cover of the book: "Mesopotamian Astrology: An Introduction to Babylonian and Assyrian Celestial Divination" by Ulla Koch-Westenholz
Recently read through this and it's so fascinating seeing how celestial divination worked in a time before the zodiac, and then being able to trace the slow development of the zodiac in 1st millennium Babylonia. #Assyriology #Astrology #Booksky
Tick-tock… just a few days left to submit your article for the IAA Prize for the Best Article of an Early Career Scholar! Don’t miss the chance to be recognized—details here: iaassyriology.com/iaa-prize/ #Assyriology #Archaeology #Mesopotamia
