The best success I had on the market this year has been due to my experience as a Digital Humanist. The primary direction for DH is toward developing machine-readable documentation, or teaching students how scholars use digital tools to engage in historical study.

Are you still playing Pokopia? I am, too. I made a tracker to organize my Pokémon households and I'd like for you to test it out: adeloucas.github.io/Pokopia-Trac...

No one prepared me for Dennis Reynolds being in Season 10 of ER

i love the glottalic alliteration of ṣubbi ṣeḫram ṣābitu qātīka [ts' .. ts' .. ts' .. k'] "observe the little one who takes your hand" one wonders if this is some kiki (vs. bouba) sound symbolism for a cute child

Abominations week continues! Inanna was a fierce and passionate goddess, beautiful, warlike, sexual, and aggressive. And THIS was her abomination? #AncientSayings

In the Standard Babylonian version of Sīn-lēqi-unninni: 𒇻𒌋𒉆𒁀𒀀𒄫𒂍𒁶𒂼𒅗 lu-u-nam-ba-a qer-bet GIM AMA-ka l-unabbâ qerbētu kīma ummika OPT-lament(D:PRET:3fp) pasturelands like mother-your

Finishing off the week with Adams and Beethoven

See "United States of America vs. Approximately Four Hundred Fifty (450) Ancient Cuneiform Tablets; and Approximately Three Thousand (3,000) Ancient Clay Bullae." www.unodc.org/cld/case-law...

If Table of Gods isn’t already on your radar, take this moment to see what Arim Hawsho has been crafting over the last six years. Having the chance to work with him to on the project’s textual and historical grounding has been a real honor: www.tableofgods.com

do you ever think about how Arabic, Hebrew, and Syriac are coolly preserving initial /h/ in loanwords from *Sumerian*, a sound that Sumerian itself lost thousands of years ago from Jagersma 2010

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This half-finished Czech beer is for you, Andrew Deloucas, PhD

I'm 5 followers away from 2.7k followers: I'm gonna be here for a bit longer, so let's connect and do good work! Interested in Bronze Age Mesopotamia; civic, legal, and economic history? I'm your guy! Open for consulting work 😏

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The name and bio change!!!!!!!! I 10000000% stan. Thank you so much for taking a huge interest in my homeland's civilisations :-))

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We did it, y'all: happy doctoring 😭

Difficile de savoir comment on vivait il y a 4000 ans, sauf quand on a les bonnes sources ! Et à Kültepe, des milliers de lettres ont été retrouvées. Cécile Michel les a étudiées et vient nous en parler demain à 14h sur Twitch avec les @editionsduseuil.bsky.social ! www.twitch.tv/notabenemovies

Un super épisode sur les recherches de ma passionante collègue @imaneachouche.bsky.social !

The last one on this fascinating list shows that ancient Mesopotamia recognised the concept of ‘good vibes only.’

Preparing for my defense by seeing Lamb of God

As usual, I spend over an hour trying to see if I can track down a scan of a plate of an inscription in an old French publication from the 19th century online, fail, then in exasperation Google the thing in basic terms and of course there's a Wikipedia article with a with some decent photos.

It is my pleasure to share the recordings from #ResDiff7, an annual digital conference on inequity in the field of classics. All videos from #ResDiff7 (as well as all past conferences) can be found here: resdifficiles.com

We're asking because this Mesopotamian stew asks for garlic and onion in equal measure 🥴 "Meat stew: meat is set up. You prepare the broth. You add fat. Grate in equal parts onion and garlic. Garnish with kurrat."

Food poll: when using garlic and onion in a recipe, what are your go to proportions? 1 clove per onion, 1 bulb per onion? Equal measurements?

I was lucky enough to be interviewed on the first episode of this new podcast from the Financial Times, called The Story of Money. We had a really interesting conversation. It's also on Spotify etc. @financialtimes.com #mesopotamia #cuneiform #debt www.youtube.com/watch?v=L09n...

This is an excellent, and even necessary, read also for researchers and Ph.D.ers hitting a very similar threshold in the market: our sectors aren't isolated in misery, we are all affected. It isn't you.

Happy National Garlic 🧄 Day! Greeks & Romans loved garlic—but Mesopotamians loved it 1000s of years before them. The Greek ἄγλις (Latin alium) is an Akkadian loan word. At Pompeii, there was even a garlic seller (aliarii) workshop ( 📸 by @pompei79.bsky.social): pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpic...

in fact @aandeloucas.com has persuasively made this very argument with regards to the multiple sources Ea-Nasir was providing copper to

Imma let you finish but the Debate Between Date Palm and Tamarisk is the hardest rap battle of all time. (Because they are trees.)

Is Tyrannosaurus the only dinosaur with an Anatolian etymology? Or is there like a Suppiluliumasaurus out there that I don't know about

🎉🍾 Congratulations to Dr. Julia Puglisi, newly minted Egyptologist and proud scribe of a monumental dissertation on the landscape archaeology of the Central Field of Giza! 🍾🎉🎆

Honestly “how did a surveilling God solve the despotic problem of the absentee enslaver” was one of the big breakthroughs for me

I've been thinking about this all day, especially in light of re-reading @lclaberge.bsky.social 's wonderful piece about Hampshire's previous almost-closure. lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-ma...

Ancient Sumerians had their friends' backs. That's how you get cuneiform blessings for the perfect comeback. Friends wish friends sick burns. #AncientSayings https://youtu.be/QDinGlJh2es?si=MkzaKs1m7qAaGBkb

the Artemis mission is what I believe in and want to see more of in the world. smart, kind experts working together for knowledge and discovery.

Interested in the role of bilingualism in empires, imperial administration, novel methods of archival analysis, or the study of multimodal scribal practices? Check out Dr. Uotila's newly minted dissertation here: researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/publicati...

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".

the world is on fire and I'm feeling some kind of way about it. nonetheless, I just received proofs of an article on race and blackness in Latin literature which I had to fight tooth and nail to get into print

Short answer: we don't know! It was earlier suggested to do with the baking process, but this is no longer thought to be the case. @lswisnom.bsky.social has suggested they may relate to pauses in performance, syntax, or visualization. Her article is shared below.