In May 1174 the great atabeg of Aleppo Nur ad-Din died, setting off a chaotic chain of events.

His father Zengi had conquered most of Syria and Mesopotamia, the first real threat to the existence of the Christian Crusader states on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean.

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The traditional, modern view is that the Antonine Plague was smallpox, spread among the troops as they headed back from the Parthian War in Mesopotamia in c.165 AD

Lessons from the Antonine Plague 🎧 https://t.co/KIPotnkpMZ

Image Credit: Wellcome Images / CC.

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Tapputi Belatekallim. La primera química de la historia. Conocida perfumista del 1200 ac en Mesopotamia

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Today is The can be seen first in as a or a with a It was said that those who drank from its horn were from stomach trouble and
was not a Unicorn, nor do have

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Mesopotamia - Fertile Crescent City by Louis Laurent
🔗https://t.co/h9doSlf3ka

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New chibi artwork, this time based on Mesopotamian mythology :3

Just me, relaxing and playing the royal game of Ur with the slayer of Tiamat and patron of Babylon, Marduk :)

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Mesopotamian City, aerial shot via /r/conceptart https://t.co/be9gdaDJ8o

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Remains of Seleucia-on-the-Tigris, Iraq. While most great cities of Mesopotamia were built along the Euphrates, Seleucus I chose the Tigris. By the 1st cent AD, it allegedly had 500K people living in it, & later great cities like Ctesiphon & Baghdad would be built nearby

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It's my birthday so I drew some ancient Mesopotamian sculpture.

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A beleza mesopotâmica do cascão...

Monica tantas opções

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These scorpion-men of ancient Mesopotamia are best known for guarding the gates of the sun god in the Epic of Gilgamesh

Aqrabuamelu are described to have the head, torso, and arms of a man and the body of a scorpion

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Hello there! My name is Six, I haven't drawn my full portrait yet so here is my chibi version! However, I did draw my spirit guide Asushunamir! An immortal from Mesopotamia!!--They possess my body from time to time so I can move and live due to my illness!

Let's get along!! ;w;

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"Ishtar"
a primary Mesopotamian goddess closely associated with love and war.

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“The Fiancee of Belus”, 1885, by Henru Paul Motte. From “Mesopotamia, Civilization Begins”
(Thomas, Potts)

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Looking at Ken Ham's batshit Creationist displays and Darren Aronofsky's Noah movie and graphic novel makes me want to write an isekai set in Old Mesopotamia, with pagan gods, biblically accurate angels, dragons that look like dinosaurs and demigods like Gilgamesh and Semiramis.

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‘El ciervo sin corazón’ es el tercer título que ilustramos para Ta Chien Publishing. Fue divertido dar vida a este zorro maquiavélico, uno de esos animales habladores que siempre nos han fascinado en las fábulas de Esopo: https://t.co/AAmox3R1dE

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Este es el segundo título de que ilustramos para Ta Chien Publishing: ‘El asno que cargaba una imagen’. También en su web, por si alguien quiere echar un vistazo: https://t.co/EHcohhy1i1

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