crowley's mesopotamian look™ with that cute lil braid, you say? coming. right. the. heck. up.

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The "draft" on the Ancient Persian Art.
Besides the working time I study the history of Arts and the last matter we discussed was devoted to Ancient Mesopotamian civilizations.
The Bull capital from the Apadana of the Palace of Darius in Susa made a deep impression on me!

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Character design - mesopotamian goddess Ishtar/Inanna

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According to this, the origins of almost all modern alphabetic scripts go back to Egyptian hieroglyphs. Surprised to see no Mesopotamian cuneiform here, they must have had some influence on Phoenician & other Semitic scripts. https://t.co/LDqnQOfDCD

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The Worshipper of Larsa is a Mesopotamian bronze and gold statuette .Circa 2004 BC -1595 BC. It depicts a bearded man, kneeling and performing a ritual gesture.The statuette was dedicated to the Amurru by an inhabitant of Larsa, in order to safeguard the life of King Hammurabi.

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Possibly a royal being from the Mesopotamian Urbaid period (3500-7000 BC). Strange human or alien creature?

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I'm obsessed with Mediterranean/Mesopotamian griffins and also peacocks and also Ayam Cemani chickens

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The Romans, the Gauls, the Celts, the ancient Mesopotamians, Egyptians and Assyrians, the Hittites, the Persians, the ancient Chinese and Indians...
All these proud chariot riding civilisations and none managed to reach this pinnacle...

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"Mermaids...have been shoaling around the sunless depths of the human psyche since the time of the ancient Mesopotamians."

From the archives: our interview with . https://t.co/hp8q3QIgCx

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In Mesopotamian the Assyrians called upon to undo the effects of evil witchcraft aimed at them. They believed that fire destroyed sorcery or evil/black magic. They would burn sorcerers at the stake; long before the hunts of the Salem Witch Trials.

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The Great Flood may not be a myth. The flood appears in ancient Sumerian, in the Hindu Matsya Purana, in the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh, in the Bible & with ancient Greeks w/ Zeus' flooding of the world in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Scientists have found evidence in the Black Sea.

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"The Guennol Lioness" is a 5,000-year-old Mesopotamian (8.8 cm /3 1/2 in.)

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✧ For today: My version of the Mesopotamian ✧ [ Decided to flex my digital muscles @@ ]

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