deniz
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deniz
@averil12345.bsky.social
master degree juniour scribe in cuneiform studies, crazy cat owner
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June 14, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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April 5, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Seems like pretty solid advice, even a few millenia later.

Folks should read more clay tablets, honestly.
“Do not act falsely and terror […] will not consume you.

“Do not slander, and you will not ponder grief.

“Do not commit evil, and you will not gain eternal distress.”

Proverbs from ancient Mesopotamia preserved on a broken clay tablet.
March 23, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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💬 Kurtuluş yok, ya hep beraber, ya hiçbirimiz

📢 Vatandaşlar CHP’nin Cumhurbaşkanılığı önseçiminde oy kullanmak için Çankaya Belediyesi Hüseyin Onay Ayrancı Evi toplanıyor
March 23, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Tracking Trump, Day 60:

• Executive order to shrink Education Dept.
• Justice Dept. shifts closer to Trump
• Why is Trump so obsessed with 🇨🇦?

Plus more you should know for March 20: www.washingtonpost.com/the-seven-tr...

📥 Get the newsletter delivered: www.washingtonpost.com/newsletters/...
March 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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I'm still not entirely sure how to say "hello" in Akkadian, but this is my best guess (inspired by: www.ebl.lmu.de/library/VAT.... iii 19f.: "Am mouse fled from a mongoose and entered a snake's lair, saying: 'a snake-charmer sent me - shulmu!'"
March 19, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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THE SHIRTS ARE BACK IN STOCK

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March 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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💌 A Postcard with a Written Message on the Back, Sent from a Grandmother to Her Granddaughter Who Is a Student, 1920s

"My dear, precious child, my dearest Fahriye. I received your letter.. Before reading it, I kissed it many times..." [𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗜𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗹𝘁 𝗧𝗲𝘅𝘁] #Postcard #History
March 4, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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In this book, Ş. Bozgun presents #cuneiform texts from early excavations in Boğazköy-Hattusa. It contains a.o. the first edition of 161 tablets, which makes it a relevant milestone towards the complete documentation of the cuneiform finds from this city.

www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/isbn_9783447...
February 25, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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ASSYRIOLOGY ALERT

I love it when something from his beardiness drops.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUxF...
The Babylonian Map of the World with Irving Finkel | Curator’s Corner S9 Ep5
The Babylonian map of the world is the oldest map of the world, in the world. Written and inscribed on clay in Mesopotamia around 2,900-years-ago, it is, lik...
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August 3, 2024 at 12:56 AM
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In Opinion

“Pushing power to the limit does not guarantee presidential success, much less greatness, as Mr. Trump is about to discover,” writes Jack Goldsmith, a former assistant attorney general under George W. Bush.
Opinion | Can Trump Be a Great President?
Pushing power to the limit does not guarantee presidential success.
nyti.ms
January 20, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Demi Moore kariyerindeki ilk ödülünü aldı
Demi Moore kariyerindeki ilk ödülünü aldı - Diken
06/01/2025 - Demi Moore, 'The Subtance' filmindeki rolüyle Altın Küre'de ‘En İyi Kadın Oyuncu’ ödülünü aldı. Moore ödül konuşmasıyla salonda ayakta alkışlandı.
www.diken.com.tr
January 6, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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In this ancient clay letter from a man named Balāssu (and one other), he complains that “Birds have become few before us”.

He asks his brothers to send twenty or thirty birds. This was around 2,500 years ago. www.ebl.lmu.de/fragmentariu...
January 6, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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New issue of Cambridge Archaeological Journal Vol. 34 , No. 1 (2024) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @cambridgeuparchaeo.bsky.social
December 31, 2024 at 12:45 AM
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🔴 Soru sormanın dayanılmaz ağırlığı

📌 Tıkır tıkır işliyormuş gibi görünen bir ortamda zordur soru sormak. “Cahil’ ya da "münafık" olduğunuz izlenimini yaratabilir. Ne büyük israf!

✍️ Haluk Şahin'in yazısı...

t24.com.tr/yazarlar/hal...
December 31, 2024 at 5:30 AM
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This is real and, thanks to @archive.org, you too can read the full multi-generational fever dream of 'Nathaniel's Fun Factory.'

web.archive.org/web/20030903...
Extremely stylized drawing of Donkey Kong showing a little boy "wondrous places", from a promotional story book included with Nintendo's 1999 corporate annual report.
December 24, 2024 at 4:40 PM
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And humanize all children in wars everywhere.
December 24, 2024 at 6:48 PM
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Christmas is a good time to throw Wikipedia a few bucks to thank them for the many times you relied on the site that year. Members of the billionaire class want to destroy it for some reason.

(@archive.org is also under constant threat nowadays and in need of support)
December 25, 2024 at 5:23 AM
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“The dragon-face is the dragon-face of a man,
The dragon-face of a man causing evil”

His presence brings drought and death, but there’s a way to get rid of him in this incantation against the evil eye from almost 4,000 years ago cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/35...
December 25, 2024 at 7:02 AM
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Cuneiform tablet: record of oxen disbursements https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/322445
December 24, 2024 at 12:44 PM
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■ Cabinet Photograph of an Ottoman Turkish Man on Crete Island, 1890s #history #fashionhistory #portrait
December 19, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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Brezilya’da ilk ve orta dereceli okullarda telefon yasağı
Brezilya’da ilk ve orta dereceli okullarda telefon yasağı - Diken
20/12/2024 - Brezilya'da kongreden geçen düzenleme onaylanırsa ilk ve orta dereceli okullarda cep telefonu kullanımı yasaklanacak.
www.diken.com.tr
December 20, 2024 at 6:45 AM
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Even if it’s just a little fragment, I love this lion who roars at us from millennia ago.

Mass-produced from a mould, this clay plaque of a lion — so detailed you can see the texture of its mane and fur and fangs — comes from ancient Nippur in Iraq
December 20, 2024 at 7:26 AM