Game designer: After lots of hard work we’re proud to announce we’ve created the Wheel of Saṃsāra from the ancient Buddhist classic Don’t Get Trapped in the Wheel of Saṃsāra

[Not the Bot] Thank you to @galaxykate.bsky.social for developing Tracery and imaginary_golux's "An Overview of the Foods of the Redwall Abbey Universe" on AO3 which was an invaluable resource in building this bot!

I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.

I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.

My favourite part of this ancient Assyrian letter to an ancient Assyrian goldsmith, is the last bit where the writer basically declares that the “house where they purify silver” absolutely does not pass the vibe check. “They are drunk and silver is stolen”

Also, we had the terrific Reid Byers come up and talk to us yesterday about his imaginary books as a form of reading what you can't actually read. Maine is really a very good place for to be doing bookish things www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

My #SuperlativeCannedGoo tweet from the old place is making rounds again. Support co-op cranberry growers!

At 0300 our patrol made hard contact with the historians

Our Music of Midwinter tour starts next week! Find tix and info on all shows at WindborneSingers.com/concerts Will we see you there?

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

This is Nabia Abbott. She was a groundbreaking scholar of Arabic manuscripts, the first woman professor at UChicago's Oriental Institute, and once sent me on a wild goose chase spanning 3 continents. Someday I'll finish my article about her, but until then, see: threadreaderapp.com/thread/15809...

Autumnal read: Rhyne King's House of the Satrap. Fascinating dive into the basic building block of the Achaemenid empire, the satraps house, and argues that the imperial system should be viewed as a set of hierarchically structured overlapping houses: the king, his satraps and their subordinates.

Christopher Lee with his cat, Renfield.

about three years ago a group of almost 100 book collectors started an absurd project: to publish a handmade book, with every decision made democratically. somehow it actually worked? it is *very* on brand that picked an ancient egyptian travelogue poem as the text

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

This Thursday, online public lecture Manchester Egyptology Seminar Series - Dr Kathleen Sheppard @k8shep.bsky.social Prof. of History at Missouri University of Science & Technology: ‘“How Winning a Woman of Study Can Be” in Early American Egyptology’ Oct 2nd, 5pm UK: zoom.us/j/91521871294

Anyone interested in medieval fakes should plan a trip to Paris. The Musée Cluny has a show from 7 Oct. to 11 Jan., www.musee-moyenage.fr/activites/pr... and the Archives nationales has one from 15 Oct. to 2 Feb.:

By which I mean that Knut Eriksson, Erik Knutsson and Erik Eriksson were fighting Sverker the Elder, Karl Sverkersson and Sverker the Younger (aka Sverker Karlsson). because why come up with new names when the names you've got can take at least another few generations of wear and tear.

Siegfried’s Long Call from Twilight of the Garage (Gäragerdämmerung)

Prepping a lecture on the difference between looting and archeology and have just made this cursed image

Live footage of historians these days

[ancient egyptian standup comic] see guys from the upper kingdom, they observe funerary rites like THIS. but us guys from the lower kingdom, we observe funerary rites like THIS. See this guy knows what I’m talking about [pointing at man with the head of a bird]

Telling my kids that this is just the god Nanna:

It was a huge pleasure to chat with the wonderful Arkady Martine @byzantienne.bsky.social for our latest Writing Worlds conversation about world building. This time we talk about language as an element in world building and the development of imagined cultures. 🎧👉 www.pod.link/1812994751

Further thought: Charles V's empire also the last gasp of Lotharingia. Not just Charles himself and his sisters and aunt, but many of his closest advisors were all from bits of what had been the Middle Kingdom. Chièvres (Netherlands), Gattinara (Piedmont), the Granvelles (Franche Comté).

so my PERSONAL favourite way to fuck with Americans is to be like “this building is from 1520!” Or whatever and they’ll go “wow we don’t have anything that old!” And I’ll go “yes you do” and just stare at them

I'm torn about this, as someone who learned cuneiform well at Not Chicago, but since my own program and many others have since been eviscerated, the alarm call is warranted. Academia is necessary to the preservation of knowledge and we need to rebuild more durable distributed knowledge networks.

Hot off the presses! Here’s a new article that I co-authored with my Lagash Archaeological Project colleagues on a geoarchaeological study of what we believe to be evidence of hydrological warfare in the Third Millennium BCE. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The name Catherine doesn’t exist in the ancient world, and is likely a diminutive of an abbreviated form of Hekate which was used in antiquity: Κατε Thus the name Kate is older than the name Catherine! & while we use it as a diminutive, Kate is really an un-diminutive of a diminutive of itself.

UChicago is not a school people go to to have FUN. Everyone I've met from there felt guilt for not being in the library studying. You go to Chicago for incredibly serious scholarly work. Stopping PhD admissions? Are you out of your damn mind?

Clay cuneiform tablets should be the only text medium

Wafaa Bilal, facsimile of Assyrian Lamassu guardian double relief destroyed by ISIL, Coded into DNA of a grain of wheat; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago http://dlvr.it/TMbmpP

New ALILI! To make up for an unexpected podcast pause, Ep. 38 is four languages for the price of one. Imar Koutchoukali discusses the Old South Arabian group, included among them the language of the Queen of Sheba. Acast: shows.acast.com/a-language-i... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0hty...

EMILY DICKINSON, JEDI KNIGHT Not so clumsy, nor so random - As a blaster - in its rage More elegant - the weapon More civilized - the age

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Working to translate some texts on Joan of Arc into Norwegian for teaching purposes, I am tickled to learn that the word for a mendicant friar is "tiggermunk"

My "Yeda’yah son of Asayahu" seal has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my seal.

An R1 without languages programs isn't a research university, it's a joke.

Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.

“Gosh, you really need to start with the uncataloged materials. You never know WHAT you’ll find in that stuffed to the gills storage area.”

Slightly diminish a band: The Theban Venerated Band

Sounds like I'm getting Banh Mi DC tomorrow. Been a hot minute.

In our last class this summer, I spoke with graduate students about careers in our field. And I asked them something they said no teacher has asked them before "What do you think the Univeristy is paying me to teach this class you're taking right now?" We should talk about this stuff!

For my Star Trek music nerds out there and Klingonophiles. This is amazing. And the story of the music system based on yav, raD, and QIH. So awesome.

🚨 THIS WEEK TO PATREON AND APPLE SUBS🚨 ❌ This week on History Rage, we welcome @adapalmer.bsky.social to discuss the myths of the Renaissance. Are Golden Ages and Dark Ages just historical propaganda? #Renaissance 🔍🔥 Listen now: www.patreon.com/post...#Renaissance#AdaPalmer #Inquisition #History

Nerdy joke warning. 😁 I've been planning this since I first saw the Newton for Hyde sign.

In the death registers of early modern Venice, marginalia often marks the cause of death: drawings of daggers for murders, for instance. In 1696, Giovanni Battista Rinaldi was killed by a dog. This is the drawing by his entry.

Author copies arrived today! 😍🥳 #dh #bookhistory #medievalsky

You can’t get rid of them no matter how hard you try anyway. The theme of “Poland is Not Yet Lost” is that they’re simply too big of haters to keep down for good no matter what you do.