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

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2018-12-05

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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2018-11-24

Excited to share the latest addition to my shop: Gilgamesh and the Dream of Endiku Original Painting Epic Poem from Ancient Mesopotamia Sumerian Art History Sumeria Uruk Humbaba Mythology https://t.co/yWgmON4cH0

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2018-06-23

"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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2018-05-22

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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2018-04-26

A short thread of resources, particularly materials in English, to learn Akkadian, the earliest attested Semitic language known from clay tablets from ancient and

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2018-02-19

Statues of Assyrian Winged Bull (Lamassu) have 5 legs, but you only see 4 from the front and from the side.

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2018-02-09

Did you get your copy of the latest Timeliner? A brilliant story about the Sumerians, set in Mesopotamia over 4,000 years ago. Mixing fact & fiction. 7+ years/KS2. Out in the webshop now! https://t.co/r77JtFxnra

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2018-02-07

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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2018-02-04

Excited to share the latest addition to my shop: Gilgamesh and the Dream of Endiku Original Painting Epic Poem from Ancient Mesopotamia Sumerian Art History Sumeria Uruk Humbaba Mythology https://t.co/hvrdyuP63p

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2018-02-02

Incantation bowls were buried upside-down at the entrances of homes in Mesopotamia,so as to trap demons who tried to enter the house. This 7th century bowl with Aramaic inscription was prepared to protect Abuna bar Geribta and Ibba bar Zawithai from a series of evil forces.

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2018-01-23

Combination time! The Guennol Lioness is A 5000 year old limestone statuette from the Mesopotamian region.

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2017-10-05

Title: クフ (Khufu)
Genre: Mesopotamia Trance

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2017-08-01

King Shulgi's reign was a time of change, not everyone appreciates that though...

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2017-08-01

Hormazd Narielwalla's Mesopotamia Maze No1 & No.2, lithographs are at Booth 6, Royal Academy, Piccadilly, 4-7 May

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2017-05-04

Agatha Christie & Iraq
Several visits 1928-1960
Murder in Mesopotamia, 1936
Absent In The Spring, 1944
They Came to Baghdad, 1951

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2017-01-04

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

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2016-08-31