Had a dream that I found a copy of Liverani’s Assyria: The Imperial Mission translated to Finnish and published in the SAAS series. Get a life repekka

The thing I love about letters is that you get an authentic look inside people's lives from thousands of years ago, and what you see is that people are still people. Like Bahianu here, who is too scared to ask a woman out that he likes, so he asks the governor of Nippur to ask her for him instead.

Join us for another (hybrid) AMME Seminar TOMORROW (07.05.26, at 16:15-18:00 EEST)! Session theme: cuneiform texts and scribal adaption Speakers: - Gian Pietro Basello - Jay Crisostomo Abstracts & more info: www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg... @helsinki.fi #AMMEseminar

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Was a pleasure to meet you Andrew!! ^^

Today, this year's penultimate meeting of HAANES at Harvard: @repekka.bsky.social giving her talk, "Keeping an Archive in 7th c. Assyria during the Alphabetic Turn".

Can I call this my US tour if I have two stops?

Ostin impulsiivisesti tän Karjalan, Kourin ja Mahlamäen (2024) ”Luovaa kirjoittamista tutkijoille” ja oon kyl ihan myyty tästä kirjoittamisen vertauksesta leikkiin… Etenkin jos tätä ajattelee yhteisartikkeleiden kirjoittamisen kannalta :D

Are you - or is someone you know - a PhD student or ECR working on Late Bronze Age/ Early Iron Age/Archaic Greece? And within striking distance of London to tell us about your research in May (we have some money to help with travel costs)? Please share! forms.gle/PijTVxb7a8Nh...

Successfully defended my dissertation titled ”Parallel use of Akkadian and Aramaic in Neo-Assyrian archives” on Friday ^__^ yippee yahoo

Mä joka päivä päivittämäs epätoivoisesti rahoitushakuilmoituksia tiede ja tutkimus -sivustolla jos vaikka oisin unohtanu jonku pikkusen säätiön tai seuran

💡 Curious about ancient Mesopotamia? Dive into history with FIME & @helsinki.fi's free online course, 'The Age of the Cuneiform'(only in Finnish). Explore culture, science, religion, and gender in the ancient Middle East. 👇 www.fime.fi/en/journey-t... #Mesopotamia #History #OnlineLearning

Meidän kaikille avoin muinaisen Lähi-idän verkkokurssi on nyt julkastu! Oppia voit mm. nuolenpääkirjoituksesta, Ištarin palvojista, ja muinaisesineiden laittomasta kaupasta! :) #mesopotamia #historia #tutkimus #tiedeonkaikillejakivaajee www.lahi-itakurssit.fi/course/nuole...

(reposting w/ slight CFP change!) Just Announced! The next #ConnectedPast in 2025 will take place in Coimbra Portugal! You have until March 15 to submit your abstracts! Share widely amongst your networks! @fionacoward.bsky.social #networks #archaeology more details: www.connectedpast.net

Ea-nāṣir is the recipient of the world’s oldest complaint letter. He’s reportedly the worst businessman of the 18th century, a mediocre conman whose actions should have him put out of business. Is this fair? Here’s a thread on the most up-to-date research on this captivating figure.